Wow, a piss poor week in the medical dept for me.

Well, I found out very clearly how medicine (and Medicare) has become a money game for the medical establishment lately when I was referred to three specialists. The second one I saw Mon and she butchered me, taking tissue samples for biopsy from a very, very sensitive area and still causing pain (it never happened the two times I had it done before). The first referral, to a throat dr, turned out to be a nothing-burger, after a barium test. I cancelled the colonoscopy and endoscope which were also recommended and fired all of them. If my biopsy comes back positive, I’m going to find another gyn, a surgical specialist, not some glorified midwife (doctors around here, no matter what their gender, prefer to deliver babies, nothing else). And bill, bill, bill, for the corporation for which they work. And Medicare, of course, doesn’t cover everything and pays only 80% on those procedures it approves.

Why should I submit to procedures which will result in having to undergo anesthesia 2 times within a very short time frame?

What has happened to diagnostics? It’s all technology, multiple visits and $$$ I don’t have. The drs even want you not to bother them but to go online to check your “record”. So much so that their staff doesn’t return calls and puts you on “hold” without even telling you, in the middle of explaining why you called in the first place. So I fired them. I may be at the mercy of my own body, but I won’t be at theirs.