I'm sorry so many of you have had such bad experiences with doctors. I've had some wonderful doctors and some lousy ones. And sort of along the same lines, I am having two of my wisdom teeth out tomorrow. I know it is a relatively minor thing, but I am really terrified.

You guys should have heard the fight Drew and I got into about unions one night. It was pretty early in our relationship. I was (and still generally am) pro union, but Drew had some pointed comments about unions that came from personal experience. It got pretty heated, but I'm glad we had the discussion because he rearranged my thinking on the subject. It's why I consider him one of my best friends - he challenges my thinking and beliefs, and makes me reevaluate my positions. I only hope I do the same for him sometimes.

{{{sj}}} I wish you had a cat to purr for you when you get home, like I did.

{{{sj}}} I wish you had a cat to purr for you when you get home, like I did.

With my allergies, that would probably not be a very good thing. I will have my mother there to bring me ice cream though.

Well eff.

My BFF just called me from California. They are out there visiting and on their last day (yesterday) their aunt's English Mastiff bit their 3 year old, A, in the face while B was putting her 1 year old down for his nap. A was in the dog's face and the dog has never done anything like this before and B is a total mess.

They are all mean people who suck and are more interested in operational billing departments than health care delivery. Plus I just don't want to go. My favorite joke lately is that it will be more dignified to just die in the back yard before submitting my precious flesh to those horrible, awful, self righteous un helpful nasty people in the medical profession.(rant, rave, fume, expostulate)

Seriously. This is offensive. Again, I'm sorry if you have had bad experiences but this is just not true and it makes me feel punched in the stomach. My fiance is deep in the midst of a serious medical issue and we've received nothing but kind and good care from all the doctors he's seen. It makes me sick that you think these people are "horrible" or "self righteous."

It makes me sick that you think these people are "horrible" or "self righteous."

I just don't think that Katie Bee meant that every doctor ever on the face of the planet is horrible. She's had legitimately shitty experiences, and can't label the perpetrators of those experiences as "horrible"?

I had a shrink once who, during our first appointment after I confessed suicidal ideation, did not ask me one single question about my mental health, but instead spent the entire appointment hectoring me about my BMI and telling me how much weight I needed to lose and that I should try Pilates, and that she would prescribe a weight-loss drug. After, let me reiterate, I had talked about wanting to kill myself, and how I would do it.

Horrible. Doctor. I stand by my assessment of her.

I've had fantastic doctors, but they don't make the shitty ones any less shitty.

I hope A's injuries aren't serious, Aims. That's scary. I also always feel for the dog and dog owner if it's always been a good dog.

I can't imagine hating a pathologist. It's not his fault, plus doctors usually are at their best when it's an actual diagnosable, treatable condition and not something like weight, which is often amorphous and difficult to do anything about. I have nothing but good things to say about my oncologist, whose practice of prescribing every possible antinausea drug prior to chemo, so I'd have them in case I needed them, probably saved me a world of hurt. When I hit the five-year mark, he held my hand and I saw tears in his eyes.

I can't imagine hating a pathologist. It's not his fault, plus doctors usually are at their best when it's an actual diagnosable, treatable condition

This. I never met the pathologist who diagnosed me, but I never once hated him/her. Never even thought to.

Now, I went out on a date once with a pathologist and he was a jackass. Had nothing to do with his chosen career, however. He was just a jackass.

Aims! Oh no. Please say comforting things to B for me.