It is now 11:30pm, and my dad just got back from this hospital. A few months ago, he was diagnosed with an ulcer. For the past 2 days he had been feeling a sharp pain on the top of his stomach, and I finally convinced him to go to the doctor. He went, but when he got back, he told me that the doctor did not believe him when he told him that he had an ulcer even though my dad showed him the paperwork from his previous doctor. He asked my dad if he had any vomiting or diarrhea, and my dad told him NO. The doctor then proceeded to tell him that what he had was gallbladder disease. My dad insisted that he has an ulcer and that he wanted to get that checked, but all he got was a blood test and a diagnosis randomly thought of by the doctor whom I will refer to as ""Dr. Pig, DO."" My dad was prescribed pain killers/aspirin, which make ulcers worse, and pills to stop vomiting and diarrhea, which my dad told the doctor he did not have. When my dad took the prescription to CVS to get it filled, the pharmacist thought it was odd and felt compelled to ask my dad what he was taking the medication for. My dad told her what had just happened and the pharmacist told him not to take the medication because it could cause the ulcer to get much worse.
I can't imagine what could have happened to my dad if the pharmacist had not noticed the stupidity of that doctor to prescribe that to my dad. On op of all that, they charged my dad over $500. I hope that idiot doctor has good malpractice insurance because if he keeps pulling diagnoses out of his a$$ like that, he is really going to need it. It's not even because of carelessness, the doctor deliberately ignored what my dad told him.
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