Why don't doctors care for their patients anymore?

The vast majority of doctors DO care for and about their patients. You cannot sue this nephrologist for treating you poorly or for rudeness.

Doctors are just people like you and me only often more overworked. Some are nice, some are not. Some are insecure and arrogant while others are modest and easygoing. Like anyone else. You could have spoken up for yourself at any time. Instead you gave him tacit permission to treat you any way he chose to. Do you take this sort of behavior from everyone?

When you called to make the appointment, how is it one was never made? Were you told you had an appointment and showed up to find you weren't on the schedule? You're not clear on this. Scheduling is the responsibility of the medical assistants in the office (there are no secretaries) and if you have a problem with one of them, you speak to the office manager, if there is one.

You're not obligated to be seen, treated or followed by any doctor you don't feel treats you with courtesy, concern and respect. If you cannot or chose not to confront him, change doctors. Report your experiences to your insurance company. You'll need dates and what was said on both sides. If they receive enough justified complaints about a physician, they drop him.

A word of caution: before you take any action, be certain that you have not been an unreasonable pain-in-the-butt patient all along. After all, you're not be telling the doctor's side of the story and most people have a way of leaving out information that makes themselves look bad. I'm not defending the doctor - I don't even know him! But I am saying that between what you say and what the doctor would say, therein lies the truth.

First, don't mess with that doctor anymore. Find a new doctor. When you make the appointment repeat back to the appointment maker the date and the time and an answer from them comfirming this information. Most doctors are very good with patients. Ask questions and make sure your doctor answers every question with you in mind. If that doctor will not help, go to another one.

Call your hospital and get a referral. The best doctors are usually found this way.

Good luck and hang in there.

My guess is that you have a kind of insurance that doesn't pay that doctor as much money as he wants to make, so he'd rather you went away. The problem is a combination of greedy doctors who believe they deserve to be rich and a completely broken medical insurance system that the Republicans want to protect because so many people get rich off of it.

I agree with the above, why do you put up with this. you need to change doctors because kidneys is something you dont play with.

My question is why do you tolerate this behavior from a doc? If they don't schedule appointments when you call then ask to talk to the doc himself or change docs to one who does take your health at heart.

Because of what the generation that professed to and prided themselves on how much they cared... did to their own children behind closed doors.

Doctors usually beget doctors... and nasty people naturally beget nasty children who in turn grow up to be be unscrupulous doctors that enjoy taking their personal crap out on other people and then adding insult to injury... they charge you for it too...

Most people have only one objective in life... To jockey control... and they do what they do to others and chose their decided fields and professions in life, either to gain or to retrieve lost control by proxy. hypocritical oath or not...

well, on first though, you should sue the guy

you pay, you should get your fair treatment

get another doctor if possible

doctor were trained to take care of their patients, so he's not doing his job

and his secratary(ies) ain't helping either

i apologize about how you were treated. i went to the ER before and had to wait a long time and i was really in pain. i thank GOD that HE was and is there for me. we have to remember that doctors are human and they have a bunch of patients. what i do before i went to the doctor is pray that God gives them wisdom to help. :)

too busy, maybe he is good and in high demand....