So a week and a bit ago, I sprained my ankle playing capture the flag. Yes haha capture the flag, being chased out of enemy territory. Anyways I sprained my ankle pretty badly. Now being the guy I am, I just let myself naturally heal. However after a week and a half I grew tired of listening to my girlfriend tell me to go to the hospital and get it checked.
It is/was still pretty swollen and quite painful. And there might have been a slim possibility for it to be fractured from turning it while I was running full speed.
Anyways I went to the hospital which I hate doing, heck I don't even like going to the doctors office. I probably haven't been there in a decade. The last time I went to the hospital, I had a broken wrist that I went to go get checked 4 days after it happened.
Now here is where it gets interesting..... someone comes in my room to look at me and he is a STUDENT DOCTOR, not a real doctor a student doctor. He then asks me questions, pokes around me..... and then goes to talk to the real doctor, then comes back and says I need an x-ray. I get an x-ray that came back negative and he says ice and elevation.
My question: WHERE IS THE REAL DOCTOR???? We pay between 300-1000 bucks for a health care premium now, on top of what comes out of our taxes..... that being said I WANT TO BE SEEN BY THE REAL DOCTOR AND NOT SOME STUDENT. Besides that it took nearly 4 hours for me to leave the hospital.
Hope everyone sees my point....it drove me mad!!!!
1 comment:
Dr's have to start somewhere, how else are they going to learn? I think it's great that they are using student Dr's to handle the sprained ankle cases and leaving the more experienced 'real' Dr's to handle the more complicated stuff.
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