Doctors

[Lisa]

Hey Guys:

I know that alot of you have been walking in my shoes before me, but frustration leads me to write this post.

After 27 years, dig. with IBS by my prim. Doc. he finally realized that my symptoms were out of his ability to diognose. He sent me to a GI doc. in the next town. GI Doc. did a endocopy, colinoscopy, and biopsy. The biopsy was poss. for Celiac, Gastritis and large hernia.

Upon returning for the final consultation. .. I never have spent more that three minutes with the DR. and the Nurse Pract......plainly said "yup, you have Celiac.". I have had no conversation with the GI Dr. I had a list of questions, all the answers I knew, but hoping for her to expand the questions with information from her. NOPE. NO FOLLOW UP CALL FOR THE GI. DR., NO FOLLOW UP FROM MY PR. DR. .... NO NOTHING.

GI Dr. billed my insurance company for 3,230.00, my insurance paid l,101.61 and we owe $138.17. WHAT A RACKET !!!!!!!!!!! Darn (Da..) I should have gone to med school. I would never pay a lick of taxes for the rest of my life.

DO DOCTORS REALLY CARE, AND IF NOT WHY DON'T THEY, AND IF NOT, WHY ARE THEY DOCTORS.

Needless to say, I have a Sept 8 appt. with a new doctor who is an internist who has knowledge of Celiac. Hopefully I will be on the right road. I need help with diet, nutrition, and truely a dr. that is knowlegable and caring........

I know that many of you have been in this same position.

A little lost in Celiac Land....and Venting... ----------Lisa B.

[mytummyhurts]

If it makes you feel any better, I paid $600 for my biopsy.

I don't think that all doctors are money grubbing and bad. We tend to make them out to be that way, when they spend about 10 years of their lives going to school to be a doctor and most of them have about $100,000 in school loans when they get out. I don't think it's a piece of cake to be a doctor. They work long hours and have very stressful jobs. They have people's lives in their hands and many of them take that very seriously. I don't envy them.