The only time I have had a real issue with a doctor was in the ER one evening. My pediatrician sent us there because it was a holiday weekend. My daughter was running a high fever and had been unable to hold anything down for two days.

We get to the local Childrens Hopital and finally get seen. The moment Doogie, I mean the doctor, came in my daughter tossed her cookies. He stepped back out of the room and told ME he would be back when I had cleaned up the mess. Even the nurse looked shocked.

The entire time he is examining her she is squirming. She was 18 months old and they were cathing her for a urine sample. He kept yelling (and I mean yelling) at me to old her still. I was doing everything but sitting on her at that point. It was then that I demanded he leave and get me another doctor. He refused and diagnosed her with an ear infection. On Monday I took her to her normal doctor and he found  no signs of ear infection. She had some bacterial stomach thing.

I did file a complaint with the hospital in regards to the doctor on the advice of my pediatrician. I have no clue if anything came of it, but I felt better.

Hope your daughter feels better soon.

I've no love for doctors. I had at least three talk to me like a was a whiney idiot that couldn't just take some tums and suck it up while they wrote gallstones off as heartburn when what I was discribing and where I was having the pain should have sent up red flags to them, so instead I needlessly suffered with the pain for almost a decade and almost didn't go to the hospital when I did...which could have become life threatening. And that's just my most recent run-in. Aurgh.

I wouldn't waste my breath calling her out on it. I can almost completely promise that she won't take responsibility for her actions. It's more likely that she'll claim you should have cleaned your daughter's ears better and you'll just end up even more torqued off at her. I'd just move on with life and not see that particular doctor again since she clearly doesn't know what she's doing.

I nearly hit the eye doctor the other day. My son was born with a dermatoid cyst in his left eye and we had to take him to the eye doctor. The pediatric specialist was sick so instead of rescheduling, they just put us with another doctor.

Um....has anyone TRIED to get a three month old to hold their head still while you shine a bright light in their eyes. No...and this doctor was furious that Andrew wouldn't be still or open his eyes. I was so mad when I left there. I wanted to kick him down the hall on the stupid rolling stool he was sitting on. He actually tried to TIE down Andrew's head to the table and wanted to use anesthesia to get him to be still. ARE YOU CRAZY?? I told him to forget it and we would reschedule with the pediatric doctor.

That was a week later and it went much better. No yelling or screaming. Ugh.

I hope your little girl is okay!

what the hell is this doctors problem, is she new or something because it deffnitly sounds like she had no idea what she was doing. i would have went back to the hospital and told her i thing about herself expecially when it comes to my child so the next time she will think twice about scrapping something out of a childs ear.

Ive never had any run in with my my kids doctors, my kids doctors normally tell me and explain to me what they are going to do before they do it so that way i will know whats going on and why they are doing it. i think u and for other parents you should ask dctrs what they plan on doing and exiaclly what they are doing before they do it that way u can stay in the loop.

Sorry you had to go through that with that damn horrible doctor.

I dont care much for the doctors we've had. Trust me, Ive had no problem switching around and Im about to do so again. The current pediatricians office we go to in almost comically incompetent. It was also this office where I had a nurse be awfully rude to me and my daughter all because she had to reprick my four year old daughter to check her iron level (after she promised her she wouldnt have to again) and she couldnt get blood from her and kept squeezing her finger hard and my daughter was upset and so the nurse got rude with us and I pretty much told the nurse to back off or things wouldnt be near as calm as they were. I cant for the life of me understand why some people choose a profession dealing with children when they dont understand them at all.
This current doctor also talks to me like Im an idiot, when in fact, Im the one who's well informed and shes not.

Ugh!  I'm sorry you had such a lousy experience.  My cousin and another cousin's wife are doctors and we have a couple of nurses in the family too.  The thing is they are only human and some of them truly suck.  I mean someone had to graduate at the bottom of their class and just barely pass their boards right?  In general I think most people give too much authority to doctors and don't realize that you can ask 4 doctors to examine the same thing and get 4 different dxs.  And it is true ear infections can flame up considerably in just 24 hours but if your daughter is squirmy and freaked then they shouldn't even try to put ANYTHING in her ear!  Ugh.  This is why I still drive 45 minutes to the ped. we've had for 10 years rather than changing.  It can be such a crap shoot, especially in the ER where you're also likely to get residents.  Write a letter to the hospital admin.  It may not change anything but at least you've gotten it off your chest.

My mom went to a clinic to check a rash she had on her arm. After a ridiculous fee we waited forever, and then we found out we'd be seeing a nurse practitioner, not a doctor. wth? Well, we get in there and the doctor looks at it and is sper confused. My mom is like "I don't know if it's a bite, a reaction to plants, or shingles..." And the nurse just kept saying "uh huh, could be, coud be," while frowning. Then she perscribed some stuff without ever telling us what it was (b/c she didn;t know). Mom then went to an actual doctor, who glanced at it, said "Poision Oak" and prescribed some steriod creme to rub on it. It took less than 5 minutes.

@MsKittyCatty@xanga - Most nurse practitioners (RNs) are just as competent as "real" doctors...they just don't have the exact same credentials.  Some RNs are bad, just like some doctors are bad, but I tend to have better experiences with RNs because they actually LISTEN and aren't as stuck up and sure of themselves as doctors.

That is horrible!  I haven't had a dr. do anything quite that traumatizing (when it wasn't necessary) but one Thanksgiving weekend we took my son to the ER because we thought he had a shunt malfunction.  We went in and told them what we suspected but they sent us home and said it was just a virus...  Why I didn't think to demand a CT scan or shunt series, I don't know.  Sure enough, Dec. 7 we were rushed to the hospital because his shunt was completely broken.  It just snapped somehow.  So, my son went weeks in horrible pain..   But, I suppose that just about as much my fault as it is the Dr.'s...

@Daisy86162@xanga - Thanks!

Remember that a child's ear is extremely small, and the slightest bit of wax could cause a blocked view. Granted the doctor could have been a little more gentle, but we all make mistakes.  Maybe you should ask the doctor why they made the decision they made, but don't be completely upset because doctor's do things for reasons we may not fully understand.

@Alatariel40@xanga - I'm sorry, but you should've had that bitch fired. We all make mistakes, but not like that.

@Alatariel40@xanga -  Depends on the bubble.  Little air bubbles get in IV lines all the time.  It takes a fair amount to actually hurt you.  An adult or large child would need pretty much their entire line to be full of air to be dangerous, but I still stop and suck them out if they get more than an inch long.  It's rare that bubbles that big ever make it through the pump (which will alarm and pause if it detects air). 
The biggest problem comes when families start hitting the "resume" button when the pump alarms because they get sick of hearing it.  If you hit "resume" enough times sometimes you can allow air to get through that the pump would have otherwise stopped.  Which is why you shouldn't touch the IV pump unless you've been trained on it.

@averyswife@xanga - RN =/= nurse practitioner.  NPs/ARNPs have a masters or doctorate degree, RNs only have a bachelors or associates degree.  All nurse practioners are RNs but not all RNs are nurse practitioners.  RNs cannot diagnose or prescribe medications, you need at least a MSN (masters of science in nursing) to do that.  But thanks for sticking up for RNs

@leighanna - Just because the ER gets abused doesn't mean those patients should suffer any roughness from us, especially when they are children (who aren't even the ones who chose to visit the ED instead of the urgent care or pediatrician). 
It's natural to get frustrated when you see really desperate kids (the chemo, transplant, diff breather, or multiple trauma etc. patients) not getting the help they need because the ED has 30 kids (not counting the ones in the waiting room) with a fever, cough, sore throat, or ear ache soaking up resources BUT you can't take it out on the kids.  (Or their parents who are often just scared.....though sometimes are legitimately and knowingly abusing the system....still.)

But it's true.  We've all had bad experiences with healthcare, and we always will, regardless of the system, because it's manned by human beings.  I think the number of lawsuits is ridiculous:
I almost bled to death internally because of something that was missed by a number of practitioners and two hospitals, resulting in emergency surgery and the removal of an important (but not essential, clearly) organ.  With all that, I never even considered suing anyone or even reporting the doctors who missed it.  Instead I signed over my CT scans to be used to teach future health care workers how easy it is to miss things when you assume or are in a hurry.

We need to work together to make the healthcare industry better, not make it harder to practice in it.  @a12906@xanga