Results Based Medicine

My doctor, the blood tests, the x-rays, they all came back. They all came back idiots. I'm pissed off.I just figured out that I have to pay the doctor that saw me R250 and then claim back from Discovery who will only pay a portion of that price.What should I pay for? Knowledge?I think not. I was told, conclusively, that I should sit through the illness, wait it out and feel better. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?That was the incredible knowledge that my doctor, x-rays and blood tests gave me. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Jack. Shit.Now I am being told that I have to pay the idiots that sent me from pillar to post getting x-rays and blood tests. Why did they force me to do that if they were going to give me the same answer, over the phone, after hours and hours of waiting? Why? Now I must pay them for what?If someone can conclusively tell me exactly what I should pay my doctor R250 for, then I'll pay. But I got nothing.1. Pay for his time? He should pay me for mine: I was made to wait 30 minutes before my "consultation", before and after my x-rays, before my second consultation, a trip home, twice, blood tests.2. Pay for his knowledge? I got "Sit through the illness" and no diagnosis.3. Pay for the x-rays and bloods? I was forced to do those and they were both inconclusive.and 4. They should pay me for petrol. I spent alot of it driving up and down to those twits.Needless to say, I'm leaving my doctor.It's sad.What my doctors really need is a bit of education regarding the 30 second generation.Here comes the important part, so if you're intrigued, listen closely to yourself when you read this out loud:I will not wait 30 minutes for an appointment, not anymore. I will not take shit from anyone, irrespective of their "authoritative" position. Doctor's are as deserving of my respect as I am of theirs. They need to realise that my time is now more important than theirs, in the past it might not have been perceived that way, now it is. Make it snappy doc and make it right. And finally I am results driven. Don't give me rubbish answers that you think will baffle me cause you know what, I can actually research your diagnosis nowadays on this crazy fad called a net-site, it's this new, connected medium. Madness. I know. Get with the times and show me some results.

I feel like I'm being medically screwed

Not technically, literally or physically but medically.I've been going to the very same doctors since I was literally 2 years old. Today I decided that I am done with them.A few reasons.Firstly, I fucking hate receptionists whose condescention makes me feel insecure. I do not feel insecure ever but when I'm ill it's fairly easy to take advantage of me if you really try. These woman tried. They've been involved in this practice for so long that they think they own the place. They also think that they pay me to be there. I think they've got things upside down and backside front. Because if they really think about it and actually take a second to notice that they work in the FRONT of the doctor's office and that I, in fact, pay THEM to be there. So perk the fuck up and treat me with some damn respect.Next up. I am pissed off because I hate going to the doctor because I know that I'll wait at least 30 minutes before I am seen to. That's if I book. Half an hour on a good day. Today happened to be a good day that caught me in a foul mood. So someone got it.My theory goes like this: I make doctors rich. My 20 years of loyalty and cash have contributed to their three cars and three story house in wherever-doctors-live-ville. However I am aware that as an individual I haven't really contributed that much, maybe one tyre to that Hummer baby. What I do know is that to make up for the "cheap rates" that they offer me , cough cough, they book patients impossibly close together. By that I mean that I was booked at 11:15am the patient before me was booked at 11:00am and there was one directly after me who'd been waiting.What I am getting at is that with these squeezed-in time slots it is almost impossible for a doctor to diagnose a patient effectively in under 15 minutes. That's what I got. 15 minutes, I think. Now all I'm saying is that these doctors have enough money. Why not give each patient 30 minutes and halve the amount of patients they see in a day? Just give me the effective treatment that I am paying you for. Simple.Then the next thing: Internal outsourcing and diversifying.I needed X-rays today, on my chest (which turned out to be a waste anyway). Usually I am sent to a hospital for those. Today I was asked to stay at the doctor's offices and have the X-rays taken there. Which I did. The X-rays were then sent to the hospital that I would have gone to myself, assessed there and sent back to my doctors office. What's the point? All that happened was that I paid my doctor for a consultation, X-rays, a second consultation and then blood tests.The third consultation is coming tomorrow I am sure. Once I know what's wrong with me (other than the obvious) I'll be forking out for meds, more consultation and more admin.I hate illness.