Why the hell do we have to wait so long in the emergency waiting room, when we see Doctors hanging back, laughing and eating sandwiches?

    D. Johnson

    Old Woodlands, TX

 

    I'm concerned.  At my last doctor's appointment, I opened my pocketbook and poured out all my prescription bottles because I didn't want the doctor to give me anything that might interact with something else, and quite frankly, he didn't know the interaction of half of them.  Are you concerned?

    Tam Ynogi,

    Escondido, CA

 

    Okay, stupid question, but... where does the examining gown open?  The front or the back?

    John R. Steetler

    Grand Forks, ND

 

    Last week I was getting ready for my annual exam and my doctor walked in on me while I was butt naked.  Then he proceeded to look at my files and ask me questions while I tried grappling with the sheet to cover myself.  Shouldn't there be some code of ethics that tells him to stay outside and knock until I'm ready?  I was so embarrassed.

    Amanda R.

    SLC, UT

 

    I went to my post-surgical visit and the doctor didn't take my blood pressure.  Am I wrong to think that he should have done this?  When should blood pressure be taken?

    C. A. Hardy

    Windsor, TENN

 

    Am I going nuts?  I went to see my doctor about a bladder infection (all the signs were there, i.e., pain, blood, etc.), and he told me that I didn't have anything the matter with me at all.  He didn't even take a sample.  Instead, he said he'd write me an open prescription for Valium.  Is this some sort of quack, or what?

    Beverly S.

    Spokane, WA

 

    I've got a huge crush on my doctor.  Do doctor's ever get crushes on their patients?  If so, can they date them?      

    Sherry Anderson

    Memphis

 

    I have this strange rash all over my neck.  Do you think it could be cancer?

    Andrea Ellison

    Las Vegas

 

    My doctor picks his nose while he examines me.  Not all the time.  It seems to be a nervous tic.  But it makes me nervous when he then puts his hands on my face.  How do I tell him to stop?

    Sign me, embarrassed.

    Oak Ridge, TENN

 

    What's the difference between getting a shot in the ass and a shot in the arm?  And why shots at all?  I had my polio vaccination via a sugar cube. 

    Allen Camptom

    Juno, Alaska

 

    I get so bored waiting for my doctor while I'm sitting on the examining table, that I start snooping and taking things from the drawers.  Have you guys ever caught someone doing this?  Just interested.

    Mike G.

    Oklahoma

 

    Thanks for the info on why we have to wait so long in an emergency room.  But here's a second part to that question.  Why, after the doctor has seen us, and he has basically signed us out and left the room, do we then have to wait another forty minutes or so before we can leave the room, too?  That's pretty standard and very frustrating for someone who has already waited three hours in the waiting room.

    David Keller

    Towson, MD

 

    My Father was recently diagnosed with a probable incurable cancer, yet he's been put on a regiment of chemotherapy.  I understand chemotherapy is a palliative, but does is it a curative at all? 

    Jen Harley-Bower

    Lakeside, MI

 

 

    Every time I've ever had to go to a Doc in the Box, the doctor is always from India.  Do they have a real license?  How come real doctors aren't there?

    Karen Broadnax

    Chicago, IL