Why I hate Doctors
So tonight I spent four hours in the hospital waiting room waiting to see a Doctor. Normally I would have seen my primary care Doctor but it just so happens they moved without notifying me last week. So I finally get in there and tell him I think I have strep throat ( my son has it so i know how i caught it ). I also told him I’ve gotten absolutely no sleep lately due to the fact I’m up all night coughing. Everything hurts at night because of the coughing. It was even making me throw up.
So he listens to my lungs, etc. Takes a strep culture. The nurse comes in with my prescriptions. It’s for an inhaler and antibiotics. I ask her if she could please ask the doctor to prescribe me some cough medicine. I get this lame coughing bronchitis every year. And every year I get codeine cough medicine because it’s the only thing that works. She tells me just to buy over the counter stuff. Like I haven’t been taking Niquil for a week already?
The same thing happens with my back problems. I’m alergic to NSAIDS so I can;t take 800 MG ibuprophen. They’ve tried every other non narcotic pain killer. It doesn’t work. they refuse to prescribe vicodin or percacets because of my age. They assume that because you’re young and you want something that WORKS that you’re a “drug seeker”.
Seriously if I were a junkie I wouldn’t sit in a hospital for 4 hours waiting for codeine cough medicine. I’d borrow 5-10$ from someone and go buy a fucking bag of heroin. 
3 comments December 23rd, 2008