YOUNG-WOMEN Messages for November, 2000: Re: Negligence? For All Doc's (long)

Re: Negligence? For All Doc's (long)

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:22:31 -0600 (CST)

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At Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Mary wrote: >
>Your patience is appreciated in this matter:
>In Dec of 1999 I went to my pc for abdominal pain and got a routine
>pelvic. I was diagnosed with hgsil. I was then referred to a
>obstetrician/surgeon. He said he would have to treat my hgsil before he
>could treat my abdominal pain. I had the leep,colpo,ecc, etc. With
>this same doctor I frequently complained of my pelvic and leg region
>from hurting and was limping from it. He still insisted I wait until he
>took care of the hgsil.(he said it was probably because my underwear was
>too tight around my leg). Keep in mind all of the visits I had
>considering the biopsies and all. I complained each time. He referred
>me to an oncologist who did an ecc that came up negative for dysplasia
>with inflammed glandular cells favoring a reactive proc. After 1 month
>of waiting for those results, my pain, abdominal, became worse and could
>no longer stand for any period of time. I made an appointment anyway to
>this original obstetrician/surgeon and he finally did something. So,
>from 1/1/00-9/1/00 I was in pain. He scheduled a diagnostic lap for the
>same month (sept). I had lab work done to rule out pregnancy and it
>came out negative, so I'm told. I had the lap and hysteroscopy done.
>Diagnosis adhesions. I suffered abdominal pain on my right side after
>the surgery and bled. I called the doc and the nurse told me he
>said,"you had abdominal pain before the surgery, and this was only a
>diagnostic procedure and the bleeding was normal.(It actually was
>heavy)I couldn't walk at all up until the post op visit with the
>doctor.(Because I was on pain medication too). At the visit I told him
>I was still bleeding. He said,"your sutures look good and this is
>normal." He said to wait 2 more weeks for the bleeding to stop and come
>back if it hasn't. I eventually went to work parttime during this and
>ended up coming home on Oct 10 early from extremely heavy bleeding that
>went through my clothes. The pain got more severe to the point I could
>not walk. Unfortunately, I was at my mother-in-laws when the bad part
>happened. after 30 min of trying to contact the doc I spoke with him
>and he said, have you had sex, I said yes a few days ago, he said my
>husband reinfected me again.(I forgot to mention, the doc diagnosed me
>for pid before a culture). I said I'm in great pain and am bleeding
>alot and cannot walk. He told me to call my pc that he would have to
>help me as far as going to the er. That really hurt, I thought I was
>dying. My pc was very upset. Anyway,(sorry), I spoke with the doc on
>the phone in er,after preg results were pos, he said they can't find the
>sac, leave the hospital and readmitt myself to er in 2 days, tell them
>"I" sent you.(obgyn) To see if the hormone levels,(you know).I went
>back,(dont know why I didnt stay, I earned it),was admitted ,the doc
>called every 15 minutes from or, still no tests completed, I finally had
>the darn surgery for the adhesions and ectopic.I was in surgery for 4
>hours. I went to my post op and he said,"sutures are good, go get an
>hsg in 6 wks." I waited a month and took a preg test myself, called him,
>went in, residual hormone, and had my hsg done last week, it hurt.
>Should I change docs? Promise, never again, a long one I mean. Mary

ASk yourself; "has your physiican been responsive to your questions, calls, desires, and needs?". Let the answer to that question, guide you in whether or not you change.

RDB

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R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG  FOG

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