Speaking of falling through the health care cracks, my doctor almost stuffed me through one of those cracks this week, with her own poor judgment! I barely survived her last attempt at offing me!
I am presently lucky enough to have good health care insurance, and so I went to see my doctor when I got the flu, which was quickly turning into bronchitis, as it always does with me.
My doc gave me nothing for the bronchitis, so I called her last Friday to get some antibiotics to get me through the weekend. Instead of giving me the most basic type I’m used to, she chose AZITHROMYCIN Tablets. If I had not been so ill, I would have questioned her choice, but I was barely functional. I just needed to feel better!
Instead, I got a bad case of diarrhea, horrible weeping hives and difficulties breathing. I read up on the contraindictions for this yesterday…which made me begin to wonder if my now fired doctor was actually trying to kill me!!! Online I learned that this drug should never be given to those with a history of allergies (I’m allergic to eggs, soy, etc!), asthma, hayfever (that’s ME!), or anyone with a bad reaction to erythromycin (the doctor had a record of this stuff almost killing me once before!!!)
Giving this more thought, I decided that doctors are just too busy these days to do their jobs right, and it’s sort of working out to their advantage. As a librarian, if I was too busy, I couldn’t just kill off a few students to bring down my work load, but doctors can! Just give some unsuspecting schmuck who’s very ill the wrong meds, and presto-chango, you’ve cut down your work load by offing a few!
I should have known, because this is the same doctor who, contrary to CDC protocol, told my husband that his Chronic Fatigue (CFS) is just a psychiatric condition.
Please don’t tell anymore doctors about this simple plan to cut workload…they might get really good at it!!!
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This is hysterical. Glad to hear you fired your Dr! I always make sure to tell my docs about any allergies or reactions, exactly for the reason you are talking about. I remember a few years ago, I had an eye infection. I’m allergic to sulpha drugs and the eye doctor gave me a sulpha-based antibiotic. Needless to say my eyes almost exploded out of my head. So happy to hear I’m not the only one!!
Wendy