On Friday after I took the husband to the new wound care doctor and we had our little hug fest because I was crying because she fucking listened to me and he was finally healing after four months I came home and I called the patient representative for the hospital where the old wound care doctor works. I got an answering machine but it was late in the day so I just left a message and they called me back just now and I told the guy exactly what I wanted him to know about their doctor and I felt like this guy actually heard me also. I think it was very helpful that part of my complaint included her threatening to amputate the leg below the knee and then me taking him to a different doctor and immediately getting better healing results but…. Here I am …. I am not used to standing up for myself (and him, but as his caretaker this was my battle to fight) and this feels fantastic!! They’re starting an investigation.
At the end of the conversation I said the dude, “Look I’m not hysterical or going to sue you or anything like that I’m calling you because not everyone has the ability and option of going somewhere else when they don’t get proper care and I want to make sure that no one else is treated the way WE were treated and that every patient gets the care they deserve.”
I felt like an advocate to the world.
Also I’m secretly hoping that somebody says to the doctor “Do you know how lucky you are that this woman is not hiring a lawyer and pitching a hysterical fit?” The fact that she was telling me that they would have to amputate his leg below the knee from an infection that she had never cultured/tested for in four months of treatment is telling.
Also, the staff excuses her callousness by exclaiming “That’s the Eastern European in her!” Is fucking lame. Go be a shitty doctor in Romania then.
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