I need your help with a research project I am doing. Please tell me in as much detail as you want, what really frustrates you about your personal doctor and the doctors you deal with on a day to day basis. Thank you in advance for your help. IE Lack of communication, difficult to talk to, not getting questions answered etc...

 They mostly seem to talk at you instead of too you

I had one Dr. I would see when I would go the the Naval Hospital, I referred to him as a "Ken Doll." He had a swagger and this way about him.  I was not impressed (I don't pay attention to other men, so if he was trying to be flirty, it was not working, I am married and do not care one bit.) He acted as though he was in a medical sitcom, taking things over the extreme.  I had a reaction to a sulfa drug on Thanksgiving about 2 yrs ago....after being seen by 3 other Docs in the ER that night, he flips back the current, grabs my arm, and then starts acting as though this was an episode of ER and I had some strange disease.  I was itchy and irriated and I told him that 3 other Physicians had already seen me, I am not stupid, and I know that I am reacting to the medication, and to please leave.  He just looked at me and left.  Probably not wise to do to a Superior to my husband, but come on....if you wanted to be an actor you should have moved to Hollywood and tried to get a job acting as a Doctor. 

good ones please continue with additions here

leng says ...

there's this one "hate it" doctor, that rarely talks to his patients...like as if he swallowed his own tongue!

poor patients, like the effort of asking should really come from them to know more about their illness...if they dont ask question, this doctor, would just prescribe meds without explaining anything, just plain and simple "you have UTI."

Doctors like that are disease process oriented, not patient oriented. They simply use their cookbook of favorite recipes, without bothering to check things like patient allergies or cultures. One of the worst doctors I have ever worked nearly killed a patient with his cookbook methodology. I can't go in to specifics for legal reasons. Let's say the patient came in with a vague complaint of ongoing GI symptoms that would come and go: bloating, loose stools, cramps, general malaise due to the episodes. Every few months, same symptoms. Finally, his unlucky draw was to get this particular person for his attending doctor while in the hospital. Day 1 of admission, all labs looked great. The doctor went to the room to talk to the patient and became very upset, almost screaming at the patient. The patient could not tell the doctor anything in particular that set off the episodes, and the previous GI consults had not come up with anything. The doctor decided to do 2 things. He started the patient on IV antibiotics (no clinical indication for that)  and put him on fluid restriction (when the patient asked why, the doctor screamed at him "because your god damn bowels are full of fluid!"). After 72 hours of that, the patient's kidneys shut down. After another 72 hours of no urine output, the patient went in to a coma. By some miracle, the patient survived and recovered.

when doctors perscribe medicine for everything, it's like i came in here to find out whats wrong, not to get pills