I’ve long wanted to write a post about how much I hate doctors. I even considered at one time having an entire blog discussing how incompetent they are.

Here’s my latest experience with my (soon-to-be-fired) doctor:

We are starting the process to adopt a child from China. There is a form from our agency that needs to be filled out, which I brought with me and gave it to her. She apparently did not even bother to look at it. The form clearly stated that I needed to be tested for HIV and hepatitis among other things. And there were instructions on the form saying that it needed to be filled out exactly and completely.

So what happens?

Today in the mail I get a letter from my doctor about my blood test results. Not on the form I gave her at all, but just on a separate sheet of paper. No mention of the HIV or hepatitis results were made at all. Likely she didn’t even test for them - which I had kind of suspected as she had failed to tell the lab person that I needed to have a urinalysis done when I was there too.

The form also needed to be notorized which I discussed previously also, and was told there was a notary in the office. Of course even if she did have the letter she wrote notarized, it wouldn’t have helped, since its the form I gave her that needs to be notarized.

So now, when I hear back from her office which may not be until next week, I will have to have blood tests done all over again. And I have a gut feeling that our insurance won’t cover it and I’ll have to pay a lot of the cost myself.

So doctor lesson #1: don’t expect a doctor to be competent enough to actually be able to read and follow directions correctly.

Once I’m done with what I need from her with this adoption - she’s fired - and I’ll be looking for a new doctor.