How do you deal with a corrupt, discriminating doctor who is trying to ruin your life

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I edited my post because it was quite long due to the complex nature. Below you will find my ultra brief summary but be aware its missing a lot of information so please don't jump to conclusions or judge me without asking me to elaborate. Or you can just read the full version included by clicking on "show"

I'm disabled with a rare neurological condition known as Dysautonomia which occurred after a drug overdose damaged my Autonomic Nervous System. So now for the past 12 years I have many different complications with my body requiring frequent hospital visits to the Emergency Room. The Dysautonomia also means I can no longer tolerate substances that depress or stimulate my Autonomic Nervous System so I have ended up in the ER with severe adverse reactions after taking opiate pain medications for my chronic pain.

Because of the rare nature of my illness one of the ER doctors quickly labeled me as a junkie whilst another ER doctor dismissed me as having anxiety. I was then refused further treatment and dismissed with a rude condescending tone. Neither have ever examined me or allowed me to explain my medical condition and both refused to look at my specialists reports. Ironically their attempts to dismiss me as having anxiety has in fact become the cause of my anxiety and they have told me not to come back to the hospital which has made me apprehensive to seek medical treatment in time of need.

After ignoring their banishment the harassment increased and they now keep tabs and count every time I attend the ER and then notify my family doctor and try to convince him I suffer from anxiety which I do not. I reported them both and whilst one of them has stopped after they were spoken to my the department manager, the other has become even more aggressive and vindictive by continuing to meddle and sabotage my hospital visits by trying to influence other doctors opinions of me and interfering in any way they can to try and cause me distress and anxiety. What's the best way to deal with a major douchebag?

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I became disabled following a recreational drug overdose on ecstasy and amphetamines 12 years ago. I was diagnosed with a rare Neurological condition known as Dysautonomia which occurred as a result of drug toxicity and near fatal hyperthermia damaging my Autonomic Nervous System. The damage is very complicated and causes me all sorts of dysfunction to all my body's automatic functions such as heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure, digestion, sexual arousal, sweating etc...
The most annoying symptom is that its also left me with intolerance and sensitivty towards all substances that act on My Autonomic Nervous System and I can no longer tolerate stimulants, sedatives, opiates or depressants which result in severe adverse reactions and disruptions to my vitals.

This is where the main part of the story begins...Because of my disability I end up at the Emergency room quite frequently due to complications that occur when my body malfunctions. Sometimes the ER visits are due to adverse reactions that randomly occur after taking opiates for chronic pain. I usually put up with the adverse effects at home but only when it begins to feel life threatening causing me intense sedation and nodding, bradycardia with heart rate slowed to the low 40 bpm, suppressed breathing and unable to keep eyes open followed by waking up gasping for air and irregular heart thats when I go to the ER.

Other times I attend the ER when I develop SVT's (Supraventricular Tachycardia) caused by faulty electrical connections in the heart, hyperthermia caused by the malfunctioning of my temperature due to the neurological damage. Majority of visits have been due to Gastroparesis which occurs when the stomach stops working and the food fails to empty into the lower guts and the food begins to spoil in the stomach from sitting dormant and undigested for many hours resulting in nausea, vomiting, chills, fever and food poisoning type symptoms and feeling very ill. Again the root of all my visits have been due to the side effects of having a damaged Autonomic Nervous System.

One of the doctors in the ER took a disliking to me right away when he heard my reason for being there was due to the adverse reaction from taking 7mg of oxycodone. He called me a drug abuser and refused me medical treatment and he would not allow me to explain my complex medical history. A year later I ran into him again in the ER but this time I was there to ask for Naloxone because I believed having an ampule of naloxone would allow me to manage any potential danger at home and keep me from having to further deal with the ignorant hospital staff, however my request for Naloxone made me appear even more like junkie and the Er doctor once again refused to listen to me any further and then sent my family doctor a letter saying that I suffered from "mental and behavioral problems due to opioid s" even though I was not under the influence of opioids when I had consulted him to request naloxone. When he was treating me rudely I asked to practice my rights to get a second opinion from another doctor. So this doctor left and went straight to his friend and colleague to sabotage my request and told shared his views on me so that when the doctor came out to see me he already had formed an opinion of me before even seeing me. The second Er doctor snapped at me right away saying "NALOXONE?!?, I don't have time for this, I have more important patients to deal with and then he left" all within about 10 seconds.

I made a formal complaint about the doctor for making false and unfounded accusations about me and for refusing to treat me or look at my medical history, One of the doctors has been under investigation by a third party agency for the past 2 years now and I am still waiting on a resolution. The Er department manager also had an interview with me and put into place a care plan collected from all my specialists to prevent further mistreatment when I attend the hospital. He also told me he would speak to the two doctors however these two cock sucking cunts posing as ER doctors have continued to try and sabotage my hospital visits at every chance they get. One of them continues to meddle by being influential on other doctors by talking shit about me to them despite the fact that I have not seen him since I reported him.

As for the other cunt I saw him a few months ago and unfortunately I was having a pretty severe reaction lying on the ER bed at the time and soon as he walked in and recognized me he said "oh its you again, GO HOME!!" and then left. A few minutes later he came back after he had apparently gone to the computer to see how many times I had come into hospital and then he said 'This is your 88nd attendance here, you need to see a psychologist for anxiety". he was now playing the "anxiety' card at me because the department disapproved of his behavior last time when he played the "you're a junkie" card. So I replied to him saying "ive already seen a psychologist and they have excluded any findings for anxiety" to which he kept shaking his head saying "I don't think so". I told him " anxiety doe snot cause bradycardia and reduce your heart rate to the low 40's and unable to keep your eyes open and cause you to nod off. So then he decides to threaten me saying "If you come here again I'm going to call the police and tell them you've been driving to hospital under the influence of opiates" I seriously wanted to punch the stupid fucker in the face. I have enough difficulties in my life doing the best I can to live with a disability and he has no right to cause me grief over attending the hospital because of my body malfunctioning. he then sent my family doctor a letter informing him of the current number of visits I had made to hospital and for the "diagnosis" section he wrote just one word..."Anxiety"

The stupid motherfucker is trying to force me to feel anxious because I don't get anxiety during the adverse reactions and he is trying to now convince my family doctor too. its hard enough trying to find a good family doctor when you have rare neurological condition without having an evil jerk trying to ruin your relationship with your family doctor and creating doubt about your mental health. This fucking cunt has never examined me, he has never checked my vitals, he has never given me a mental health assessment, he has never looked at my medical history, he has never given me a chance to explain my side of things yet with the 40 seconds of seeing me he feels he has a right to dismiss all my specialists diagnosis and class me as a junkie and as suffering from anxiety. Ironically he has managed to cause me anxiety. I've been coping really well with my disability for 12 years and even in the face of death during some of the worst adverse reactions Ive had Ive managed to stay calm and I'm not afraid of dying but then some corrupt, narcissistic, arrogant, vindictive cocksucker comes in and manages to cause me distress and anxiety after lying about me to my family doctor and labeling me with anxiety.

I reported him once again to and the hospital spoke to him and I thought the matter was resolved. But this week after developing Gastroparesis again and going to the Er, my family doctor received an anonymous letter telling him the current number of visits I have made and telling him to send me to a psychologist. Its obvious that jerk sent it. What angers me is his request fro me to be sent to a psychologist when he refuses to look at my psychologists diagnosis, so whats the point of requesting for me to see another one when he wont look at it or even acknowledge it. His a sick twisted asshole and just doing all this to cause trouble and cause me anxiety because he seems to be upset about me reporting him and his friend to the hospital and the medical board. How do you deal with someone like that?
 
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Yes, it is long, but I read it! What a terrible situation u are in, It would make me furious! I have been in a similar scenario a couple times myself. I have severe migraine, and several times I have had er docs treat me like junky scum. I asked my family doc to write a letter that has been awesome..
1. Get Your family doc to write a letter that you can give to th er. Get your doc to upate once a year. My letter states that she sees me for treatment of migraine and back issues. It says that I have undergone extensive testing for both and have tried several different courses of treatment. It says that if I present to the ER to please treat me with strong drugs. This letter has been very useful, I no longer get those looks, they just treat me.

2. Does your area have any patient advocacy programs? That would be good to know. If so, get an advocate.
3. Go talk to the ER administrator. This could help as well.

Some doctors just suck when it comes to stuff like this. You really have to be part psychiatrist to be a good doc. I am sorry you are being treated his way.

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Hi,

Thanks so much for reading it all and thank you for the advice.

I am also sorry to hear you've had your own share of problems with doctors. It is really upsetting because you expect a basic level of care from doctors but instead when they make you feel worse on top of the illness you've gone to get treated at the ER, its very unfair.

I have medical folder with documents from all my specialist and my family doctor written specifically for the hospital so they don't mistreat me, my allergy specialists, pain management clinic and my family doctor talk about how I am not a drug dependent person and all my symptoms are a result of hypersensitivity from my medical condition, the psychologist reports excludes anxiety, the cardiologist and the neurologist speak about the complications my disability causes me and the hospital has a care plan telling doctors and nurses how to manage me but despite all this information these two doctors refuse to look at any of my medical history. They just keep on insisting to behave like total jackasses. I don't know what else I can do, its not like I can tie them down and force them to look at my medical hiostory and read all the paperwork written specifically for them so they don't mistreat me.

Some doctors really do suck , just like you said.
 
I didn't actually read it so if you've already explained this I apologise.
But can't you just get a new doctor?
It can't be this simple.. I'm curious I'm going to have to go ahead and read all that afterall...

EDIT: Ahh hospital staff not your regular dr. Surely you can write a letter though stating that you wish not to recieve any medical attention/treatment/etc from this particular doctor. You do have the right to just say you don't like a doctor, or you can on TV anyway, I saw some hospital programme (theres so many, cant remember which one) and in the episode the patient said he didn't want that doctor because he was black. And so the Doctor's feelings were all hurt and there was drama and whatever, but they obliged the patients wishes and gave a different doctor. So....
 
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I'm not sure where you live, so this may not work, but if it happened to me here, I would a) Go a different part of the same hospital. or b) make the journey of between 300 meters and 6 kilometers to the next hospital. Hence, also seeing someone new.

This should be viable if you are in a large city.
 
Can't the ER issue you a 24hr heart monitor to confirm bradycardia?
 
Can't the ER issue you a 24hr heart monitor to confirm bradycardia?

That would be the logical and rational thing to do but unfortunately I'm not lucky enough to deal with normal people. I tried offering myself as a lab rat and asked for them to send me to a psychologist or do whatever tests they want on me just so they can see for themselves that the reactions I have are not anxiety related, I offered my full cooperation and yet they refused and said it wasn't necessary but at the same time the behavior from these two ER doctors continue to be abusive and indicate a resolution of some sort is very necessary.
 
I'm not sure where you live, so this may not work, but if it happened to me here, I would a) Go a different part of the same hospital. or b) make the journey of between 300 meters and 6 kilometers to the next hospital. Hence, also seeing someone new.

This should be viable if you are in a large city.

Yea I wish I could change hospitals and a have a fresh start but I live in the suburbs where there is just one hospital in that suburb. I can't go to a different part of the same hospital because the ER department only has one entry and one department for dealing with patients who walk in from outside.
 
EDIT: Ahh hospital staff not your regular dr. Surely you can write a letter though stating that you wish not to recieve any medical attention/treatment/etc from this particular doctor. You do have the right to just say you don't like a doctor, or you can on TV anyway, I saw some hospital programme (theres so many, cant remember which one) and in the episode the patient said he didn't want that doctor because he was black. And so the Doctor's feelings were all hurt and there was drama and whatever, but they obliged the patients wishes and gave a different doctor. So....

Thank you for reading my post. I have already done exactly as you suggested and spoken with the department manager telling him I refuse to have any further interaction from those two doctors.

However on several occasions I consulted new training doctors / registrars working in the ER and when they I asked me what I take for anxiety and I told them I didn't suffer from anxiety and where they heard such nonsense and they replied saying the name of the two doctors that have I'm having problems with were talking shit about me to them and trying to influence their decision and sabotage my consultation. They are behaving unbelievably immature and malicious.
 
Wow I don't know what you could really do about that... I don't suppose you have the means for legal counsel? Probably not anything left after all your medical care I'ld imagine it must be fucking expensive.
 
Doctors posses a great deal of authority in our society, and god knows there are plenty of doctors out there, along with other influential figure heads. My only advice, which I have yet to follow for myself, is to either, join the Free Masons eventually rising in status through the ranks of there organization, which is from what I understand the "highest chair." Or, you can wander over to the derelict side of town in search of the Mob, to ask for there help, in strongarming that situation out of existence for you.
 
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