Friday, October 2, 2015

WTF?!

September 24th I see I have a missed call and a voice mail. I check my messages and it's my ob gyn informing me to call him immediately within the next 5-10 mins or call his cell phone any later than that. I call him right back, he answers: "Ms. Morris?" I reply yes. "I am calling you to inform you that your numbers are not rising appropriately, they are not doubling as they should and you will have to go to the emergency room immediately so that they can terminate the pregnancy because the pregnancy is not in the uterus, its ectopic."

With no emotional reaction I respond: "Okay... So what were my numbers this time?" "Your numbers were 1376." he responds. So in my head I'm doing the math: they're supposed to double every 2-3 days, my last reading was 648, which doubles to 1296, which is less than 1376. So I repeat my numbers back to him and he says: "Oh wait... what were you numbers last time?" He looks at my folder, I start getting hot with anger. "Oh yes, your numbers were 648..." I'm guessing now he's calculating. "...Oh yes, your numbers have doubled, they are in fact  rising appropriately... You come in tomorrow right?"  Angrily I respond: "Saturday." "Ok Ms. Morris see you Saturday." as I ended the call, I was disgusted! I'd never experienced anything like that. At that moment, all the emotions I should've felt when he was delivering the horrifying news, I felt right then. What kind of doctor doesn't check patient's file before calling them to devastated their whole world?
I could not wrap my head around it, but that's when I decided he'd no longer be my obgyn. 

 I called my best friend and then sister immediately to tell them I'm changing doctors. This quack will not touch my baby. They were more angry than I was. That has to be the most unprofessional moment I've experienced, especially with a doctor. I am so glad I spoke up, had the right frame of mind to calculate and advocate for myself, otherwise who knows what would have happened. I can just imagine all the terminated pregnancies that have occurred due to mistakes like the one this quack made. He could've costed me my child.

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