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.

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IOextremelypersonalN (but this is Bitches, right?), I am on day 3 of being miserable being a girl. Last month was really light so I knew this month was going to suck, but this is probably the worst period I've ever had.

I just don't think that Katie Bee meant that every doctor ever on the face of the planet is horrible.

But that's what she said. And it's just not true even if she's had nothing but shitty experiences which I'm not denying she's had.

I know it's a super emotional issue (it certainly is for me, obviously) but painting an entire profession and all the individuals in it who provide great care to their patients is just wrong.

Sorry, ChiKat, I feel your pain. Not right now literally, but soon.

And for the record, I didn't take Katie Bee's comment as anything more than a frustrated rant about an uncomfortable situation that frightens her as a way to make herself feel better. I was surprised that anyone took it personally or found it offensive. I didn't see it any differently from a rant about UPS drivers being assholes or Comcast customer service sucking rocks.

I just don't think that Katie Bee meant that every doctor ever on the face of the planet is horrible.

But that's what she said.

She didn't say that. After talking about how she had bad experience after bad experience with doctors, she said "they are all mean people who suck." She ALSO ended her statement with "(rant, rave, fume, expostulate)."

Honestly, you don't recognize that as hyperbole derived from an accumulation of very bad, demoralizing personal experiences? Seriously? That's what a rant IS.

Maybe I'm being an ignorant jackass, but when someone is talking about a highly emotionally charged subject and how it affected them personally, I tend to assume that sweeping generalizations are hyperbole, meant to convey the depth of that person's feelings.

And Buffistas NEVER exaggerate for effect. Ever. Right?

t edit Or, What Vortex Said.

I was surprised that anyone took it personally or found it offensive

well, I did. Like I said, I'm deep in serious medical business right now and so it is very personal to me plus I see every day how very much my best friend gives to her patients and our community. She, and her colleagues and the other doctors I've encountered, are not horrible or awful. We are all lucky to have them in the world.