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So this happened to my wife today.Not sure how to react to it or report this doctor.
So a few months back my wife felt a lump on her throat. It wasn't cancerous but its on her glands and they needed a surgeon to see if she might need an operation or even if she can since they are close to some nerves as the ultrasound showed.
So she go an appointment to see the doc today and next day to drink some radioactive drink for the MRI's. So she gets to the office and there's another couple there waiting.
Right after that the receptionist leaves and a few minutes later someone runs into the docs office saying there's a lady screaming in the bathroom. So my wife runs into the bathroom and the receptionist is in the stall and laying on the ground while screaming. WTF? She tells the doc and then people call an ambulance.
So an hour passes by and the ambulance finally arrives (this place is like 5 min walk from the hospital) So in the mean time other people that had an appointment arrive at the office.
So the doctor says "there's been too much trauma today you'll need to make an appointment if your case is not serious". She and the other couple are like umm ok? The guy from the other couple say "but I've waited 3 months to see you I can't wait another three"
So the doctor basically says "no more visits today" and pretty much pushes them out the door. Now them I'm referring to my wife and the original couple. My wife is like WTF? What about all those people that came in after us? The second guy got so pissed of he kicked the door and threw his cell phone at it breaking the phone. He was yelling saying "wtf am I gonna do? wait another three months?"
Now going back to right before they doctor pushed them out the office. The doctor is of one ethnicity and my wife and the other couple were of different ethnicity. As the doctor was pushing my wife and the other couple out he was speaking to the other people that came in after them in their native language, they were obviously same nationality.. Those people were allowed to stay for their appointments.
My wife just wants to kind of let it go as shes already stress out enough but I'm telling her to report buddy to the College of Physicians or something. If he pulls shit like that I sure hope he not operating on people. I told her they can look up the other couple that was there and have them verify the story. |
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 elwoodbluesElwood Blues
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Honestly reporting that behavior to the college is like complaining about a cop.
They'll take your information and do SFA about it.
Now if there was a trend in which many people complained then you might see some action. |
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peterboro (banned)Avatars are for posers
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to analog andy
Tell the doc to see her right away or you go here » www.bchrt.bc.ca/ and he spends 10k whether he wins or not. |
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 koiraHey Siri Walk Me
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to analog andy
Very non professional behavior.
You can get pretty well just cut and paste your post into the human rights complaint form |
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said by koira:Very non professional behavior.
You can get pretty well just cut and paste your post into the human rights complaint form Do it, would be nice to see what happens when the roles are reversed.... |
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to analog andy
I have gone to ethnic restaurants and shops and have seen how the owner and waitresses treat customers of their same ethnicity fine and attend them while ignoring me even if I have been there first. To me thats being rude and pricks.
But I dont stay quiet I give them a piece of my mind. OP you should had taken a video of the patients left behind and the patients kicked out. |
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peterboro (banned)Avatars are for posers
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2014-Oct-16 7:59 am
The last time I went to that miserable excuse for a province Quebec 30 years ago to get maple syrup supplies in Montreal I got that treatment.
It wasn't until I parked my truck in the loading dock and refused to move did the counter help all remember how to speak English and fill my order. |
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 A Lurkerthat's Ms Lurker btw
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Reminds me of college. One of my roommates during a work term was from China. We went into a restaurant in the downtown area one night and she pointed to a sign in the window (not in English). It basically said if you could write out your order there was a 25% discount. Great for us as she could do it, but sneaky. |
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I was reading your post and saying to myself, yes, he probably should report this. THEN I came to THIS paragraph: The doctor is of one ethnicity and my wife and the other couple were of different ethnicity. As the doctor was pushing my wife and the other couple out he was speaking to the other people that came in after them in their native language, they were obviously same nationality.. Those people were allowed to stay for their appointments. Having seen THAT, yes 100 percent you should file a complaint. The rest of the stuff can be passed off, even understood if the receptionist freaked out for some reason. But not THAT. Because this is a licensed profession, I'd file with the provincial licensing authority, not the human rights tribunal. » www.cpsbc.ca/for-public/ ··· omplaint |
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koiraHey Siri Walk Me
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koira
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2014-Oct-16 3:26 pm
Why not double down and apply to them both..... the licensing and Human rights organizations ? |
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said by koira:Why not double down and apply to them both..... the licensing and Human rights organizations ? Sort of double jeopardy in fact if not in law. I would imagine that the human rights agency would defer to the physician licensing agency, at least initially. ----- But it's not my legal system.  |
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to peterboro
Lovely bunch of bastards aren't they? |
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said by peterboro:The last time I went to that miserable excuse for a province Quebec 30 years ago to get maple syrup supplies in Montreal I got that treatment.
It wasn't until I parked my truck in the loading dock and refused to move did the counter help all remember how to speak English and fill my order. I heard a similar story from one of my dad's friends about a hotel in Quebec City. This blows my mind: They would rather be assholes than make some money? |
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peterboro (banned)Avatars are for posers
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peterboro (banned)
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2014-Oct-16 6:01 pm
I had cash in hand to buy their equipment, but noooooo, they had to show me that I wasn't welcome in their pathetic province. |
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mr weather
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Apparently Anglo money was no good there.  |
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So much Quebec hate on this forum sometimes, freaking pathetic. |
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Add this to your bucket list:
Borrow a car with Ontario plates and drive into the more rural regions, use english but make sure you don't have a hint of french accent.
Actually if you repeat this experiment using an urban french accent you likely will also get the same sort of contemptuous cold shoulder.
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Anyways not of this addresses Andy's issue. Andy Analog, if I was in that situation, if I wished to reschedule an appointment with that doctor I would call that office the next day and firmly ask for the next available date, odds are they will give you some flack about it being x months in the future. Bring up the story about what transgressed that day and see if she moves the date ahead. Failing that I would go back to the GP, explain the issue including the far flung date of the next appointment in the future and see if another specialists is available. Yes I would file a complaint with the medical board, that sort of behaviour is unprofessional. Depending on my mood I would also send off a letter to the health minister and your local MPP. The HRC is also tempting given the doctors blatant favouritism.
Hope your wife and you will be feeling better soon, no doubt neither of you needed this drama. |
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vue666 (banned)Let's make Canchat better!!!
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to analog andy
Wow...that would be so unsettling. I feel for those who where involved in this situation... |
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to analog andy
Just remember that filing a complaint against a doctor will probably be very much like complaining about the food in a restaurant. You can never go there again without suffering the consequences. *Spit!*
I'm afraid you and your wife will need to find another doctor. |
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said by milnoc:Just remember that filing a complaint against a doctor will probably be very much like complaining about the food in a restaurant. You can never go there again without suffering the consequences. *Spit!*
I'm afraid you and your wife will need to find another doctor. I would think they'd want to do that in any event. ----- Although the absolute number of physicians disciplined in Canada is low, on a relative basis BC is the most aggressive province. » www.openmedicine.ca/arti ··· /457/432 |
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said by Thane_Bitter:Add this to your bucket list:
Borrow a car with Ontario plates and drive into the more rural regions, use english but make sure you don't have a hint of french accent.
Actually if you repeat this experiment using an urban french accent you likely will also get the same sort of contemptuous cold shoulder.
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Anyways not of this addresses Andy's issue. Andy Analog, if I was in that situation, if I wished to reschedule an appointment with that doctor I would call that office the next day and firmly ask for the next available date, odds are they will give you some flack about it being x months in the future. Bring up the story about what transgressed that day and see if she moves the date ahead. Failing that I would go back to the GP, explain the issue including the far flung date of the next appointment in the future and see if another specialists is available. Yes I would file a complaint with the medical board, that sort of behaviour is unprofessional. Depending on my mood I would also send off a letter to the health minister and your local MPP. The HRC is also tempting given the doctors blatant favouritism.
Hope your wife and you will be feeling better soon, no doubt neither of you needed this drama. Yah were still talking it over. She complained to her GP which solved nothing and just got a shoulder shrug. She already told the GP that now way will she deal with that doctor and wants another appointment from someone else right away, well sadly with the system not going to happen. Best thing we could do to relive the stress is laugh this over like a Seinfeld moment. Sucks even more for the other couple that had to wait 3 months. Now whats even more stupid is that it would have been pointless to see this surgeon since her final radioactive fluid scan (what even that is called) to see what kind of cell those are isn't suppose to happen till today so it was a wast of time to even book this doctor since she'll have to now wait again. We'll decide on the weekend what to do. I'm trying to get her to go forward and at least in the future others possibly won't have to deal with this crap from this doctor. What I noticed in the last 15 years is that as almost every doctor now is a walk in clinic the quality of the service has dropped 70%. To me seems now you have to tell the doctor what you want instead of them saying you need this and this and let do this and this. Pretty much useless, they excel at maxing out the amount of people they can see everyday. |
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said by analog andy:What I noticed in the last 15 years is that as almost every doctor now is a walk in clinic the quality of the service has dropped 70%. To me seems now you have to tell the doctor what you want instead of them saying you need this and this and let do this and this. Pretty much useless, they excel at maxing out the amount of people they can see everyday. This is true in US medicine as well. Although the funding system is very different, the end result is the same. |
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 DKSDamn Kidney Stones
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said by analog andy:What I noticed in the last 15 years is that as almost every doctor now is a walk in clinic the quality of the service has dropped 70%. To me seems now you have to tell the doctor what you want instead of them saying you need this and this and let do this and this. Pretty much useless, they excel at maxing out the amount of people they can see everyday. Must be a BC thing. I don't see that in this part of Ontario. |
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Patients in BC and AB do seem a little less satisfied than elsewhere in Canada. » www4.hrsdc.gc.ca/.3ndic. ··· id=7#M_4 |
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said by DKS:said by analog andy:What I noticed in the last 15 years is that as almost every doctor now is a walk in clinic the quality of the service has dropped 70%. To me seems now you have to tell the doctor what you want instead of them saying you need this and this and let do this and this. Pretty much useless, they excel at maxing out the amount of people they can see everyday. Must be a BC thing. I don't see that in this part of Ontario. I haven't had that problem either. In fact my new doctor is pretty damn good. |
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said by MichelR:said by DKS:said by analog andy:What I noticed in the last 15 years is that as almost every doctor now is a walk in clinic the quality of the service has dropped 70%. To me seems now you have to tell the doctor what you want instead of them saying you need this and this and let do this and this. Pretty much useless, they excel at maxing out the amount of people they can see everyday. Must be a BC thing. I don't see that in this part of Ontario. I haven't had that problem either. In fact my new doctor is pretty damn good. I can vouch personally from having to deal with my herniated disk and nasty rolled ankle how usless the doctors are. For my herniated disk I went through 3 doctors in a year to be told that its just pulled muscles/stretched tendons blah blah blah to even the third doctor saying she thought I was making it up because I wasn't as flexible putting my legs up on the table, no shit sherlock, I guess she didn't see me walk like a duck into the reception area. So 1.5 years after the first visit had to go to emergency because I couldn't move the ER doc asked me if anyone requested a cat scan since the first injury. I said nope just 3 sets of x-rays. He was like huh? 3 days later I had the cat scan, three weeks later I was at the surgeon being told I had herniated a disk. Oh best part is compo denied my claim as their doctor said it was a 50/50 chance that my injury could have been caused by the work incident I reported which happened I was carrying some heavy objects in my hand and I i twisted my back to load them up on the customers truck my back just gave out. |
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