grrr!!!

talk about worst doctor appointment ever!!

my regular doctor is only working two days a week (because she just had a baby), so i saw one of the other docs in her office. that's happened before, and was not a problem, but i'd never seen this doc before.

for starters, she booked two people for the same time - 9 o'clock - and showed up late. the other woman went in at 9:30, i got to wait until 9:45. during which all of my ack-i-can't-believe-i'm-pregnant-i-need-to-be-reassured-that-everything-is-okay angst crystallised into a full blown ulcer of anxiety. blecch.

now, after waiting forty-five minutes, you might think the doc would start off by apologising. maybe asking how i was feeling. nope! she asks why i'm there, i say i'm pregnant. she looks at her computer and says, hm, looks like you have a file, let me go get that. (yeah, why look at my file before you see me? it's not like it contains my medical history or anything useful like that.)

of course, she can't find the file. she asks if i've had tests done, i say yes. she asks which ones, i say lots, but i don't remember specifically which (there were a lot! chicken pox and measles and hemoglobin and a bunch of other things). she asks if i'm getting an ob, i say no, after discussing it with my regular doctor, i've decided to go with a midwife. she says i should see an ob and soon, as if i look for one when i'm eight weeks (i.e. a month from now) it will be too late. i reiterate that i have discussed it with my doc (the one who has just had a baby and has actually seen my chart and seems to know something) and will go with a midwife and have already made a couple of calls. she says well, it's your job to find one (and i just told you i already started looking). she asks why i'm here. uh, my doc told me to come in for a checkup as soon as i found out if i was pregnant. you're the doc, you should know what to do. she suggests i get a pap & swab sometime in the first trimester. she says, so you know to avoid cats and stuff? i respond that i know some things to avoid but there seem to be lots of ever-changing lists and i'm not sure. so she drops the subject. any other questions? yeah, why'd you double book us and then leave us to sit for half an hour? i was stressed out before i got here, and now i'm extra stressed out and late for work. she ignores me, hands me a lab req and says, any other questions?

i was so steamed about the whole thing i didn't notice till after i left that she never asked the obvious "how are you feeling?" so i completely forgot to ask about the GI symptoms i've been experiencing. grrr.

i booked my pap on the way out, to make sure i could get my doctor and not this one again. what a horrible person! why go into medicine if you don't care about people? bleah.