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Consultation review: racist and condescending
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Racist and Condescending
Content warning: racism
Saw Dr. Peters for a consultation. She told me I could take a nicotine test between pre-op appointment and surgery date then wrote something different in the visit notes. When I called to schedule the pre-op, I was informed the office policy is no pre-op or surgery scheduling without a clean nicotine test. True, but she told me during my consultation that I could take the test between surgery scheduling and the pre-op because I told her I know I’ll need the hard line motivation of a surgery date to ensure I don’t relapse. She and her admin were both condescending and just generally treating me like garbage insinuating that I was just trying to have surgery without quitting nicotine (definitely not the case as I’m not stupid enough to roll the dice on tissue necrosis).
She also misquoted me, blatantly lied, and made a racist comment in my visit notes. Apparently, I’m articulate for a black woman! Yay me! Someone should let her know patients can see her notes these days.
I decided not to proceed with her for obvious reasons and found there was another surgeon in the same office who is highly skilled at the procedure. I called to schedule a consultation and was spoke to two different people who each contradicted themselves repeatedly. Apparently I can’t see any other doctors in the office because they don’t “steal patients”, but at the same time I need to pass a nicotine test before they let me have a consultation with a different doctor, but at the same time they won’t write the lab orders for the test so I need to ask another doctor to order them.
All of this to say I’ve seen quite a few doctors in my lifetime and this experience was far and away the worst healthcare experience I’ve ever had. Meeting with a doctor to ask for help with such a sensitive issue (breast reduction) puts you in a very vulnerable place. To the find out that doctor was making at least one racist judgement about you during that moment of vulnerability is a truly painful experience.
Saw Dr. Peters for a consultation. She told me I could take a nicotine test between pre-op appointment and surgery date then wrote something different in the visit notes. When I called to schedule the pre-op, I was informed the office policy is no pre-op or surgery scheduling without a clean nicotine test. True, but she told me during my consultation that I could take the test between surgery scheduling and the pre-op because I told her I know I’ll need the hard line motivation of a surgery date to ensure I don’t relapse. She and her admin were both condescending and just generally treating me like garbage insinuating that I was just trying to have surgery without quitting nicotine (definitely not the case as I’m not stupid enough to roll the dice on tissue necrosis).
She also misquoted me, blatantly lied, and made a racist comment in my visit notes. Apparently, I’m articulate for a black woman! Yay me! Someone should let her know patients can see her notes these days.
I decided not to proceed with her for obvious reasons and found there was another surgeon in the same office who is highly skilled at the procedure. I called to schedule a consultation and was spoke to two different people who each contradicted themselves repeatedly. Apparently I can’t see any other doctors in the office because they don’t “steal patients”, but at the same time I need to pass a nicotine test before they let me have a consultation with a different doctor, but at the same time they won’t write the lab orders for the test so I need to ask another doctor to order them.
All of this to say I’ve seen quite a few doctors in my lifetime and this experience was far and away the worst healthcare experience I’ve ever had. Meeting with a doctor to ask for help with such a sensitive issue (breast reduction) puts you in a very vulnerable place. To the find out that doctor was making at least one racist judgement about you during that moment of vulnerability is a truly painful experience.
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