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jebbypalOy vey.
It's never a good sign when you reveal to a doctor your phd in immunology, and their response is a story about how complicated that they find the complement system to be (critical for innate immunity and clotting). Or when you make offhand remark that you specialized in autoimmunity rather than allergy, and they say that maybe you can explain the issues that they are having.
*head desk*
When I told him I had diagnosed corn allergy, his response: "wow, not to say that you're wrong, but that's really rare, and I have busy practice and have never had a case myself". At this point, I started thinking that a part of healthcare reform should be to allow patients to interview doctors before actually having to reimburse them or pay a copay. Becuase I just wasted half an hour of my life.
To my description of GI reactions lasting for 6-8 hours, "Well, that's probably just a food intolerance as that's not an allergic response".
He's very keen to do allergy testing, preferably skin, as he definitely doubts this and he basically called my previous UPenn allergist stupid when I said that he hadn't done a skin test after hearing my description of my GI reactions for fear of sensitizing me to anaphylactic responses. And he's asked me to drive over to see him the next time I have an inhallation reaction to the bagel days. (Hey, fleshlycherry, you want to pop popcorn the monday before you leave and then you can drop me off at his office :P:P).
I was definitely brain fogged since I stupidly tried new marinara sauce Sunday night and gave myself a GI reaction that required benadryl, otherwise, I don't think I would have been anywhere near as pleasant to him (and I was..was in my talk too fast try to explain myself because we obviously speak different languages mode...and no, he wasn't foreign, english was his first language. Just one of those very inept docs that couldn't even read my body language and kept interrupting me).
So what I got out of this other than the fact that I'm a very intelligent girl who has probably connected the dots between disparate unrelated causes and symptoms, and that I need to make sure I don't let this whole breathing problem interfere with my work environment:
-prescription for xyzal
-assurance that I don't overall have asthma as my lung function tests when not irrated by corny bagels is 98%
-prescription for singular which is probably too expensive to get compounded and I don't think I want to be taking that much medicine anyways! I'm fine as long as I don't have to sit in corny air.
-paperwork for allergy blood tests since my benadryl the night before prevents a skin test
I was starting to get snarky enough that before I left (after he asked me to come over the next time I had a reaction and I replied that my reactions do clear when I get away from allergen polluted air), that I did offer to let him pop a bag of popcorn and see what happens. He didn't take me up on it.
It's a good thing that I actually like paychecks, because idiots like that tempt me to go back to med school at times.
It's never a good sign when you reveal to a doctor your phd in immunology, and their response is a story about how complicated that they find the complement system to be (critical for innate immunity and clotting). Or when you make offhand remark that you specialized in autoimmunity rather than allergy, and they say that maybe you can explain the issues that they are having.
*head desk*
When I told him I had diagnosed corn allergy, his response: "wow, not to say that you're wrong, but that's really rare, and I have busy practice and have never had a case myself". At this point, I started thinking that a part of healthcare reform should be to allow patients to interview doctors before actually having to reimburse them or pay a copay. Becuase I just wasted half an hour of my life.
To my description of GI reactions lasting for 6-8 hours, "Well, that's probably just a food intolerance as that's not an allergic response".
He's very keen to do allergy testing, preferably skin, as he definitely doubts this and he basically called my previous UPenn allergist stupid when I said that he hadn't done a skin test after hearing my description of my GI reactions for fear of sensitizing me to anaphylactic responses. And he's asked me to drive over to see him the next time I have an inhallation reaction to the bagel days. (Hey, fleshlycherry, you want to pop popcorn the monday before you leave and then you can drop me off at his office :P:P).
I was definitely brain fogged since I stupidly tried new marinara sauce Sunday night and gave myself a GI reaction that required benadryl, otherwise, I don't think I would have been anywhere near as pleasant to him (and I was..was in my talk too fast try to explain myself because we obviously speak different languages mode...and no, he wasn't foreign, english was his first language. Just one of those very inept docs that couldn't even read my body language and kept interrupting me).
So what I got out of this other than the fact that I'm a very intelligent girl who has probably connected the dots between disparate unrelated causes and symptoms, and that I need to make sure I don't let this whole breathing problem interfere with my work environment:
-prescription for xyzal
-assurance that I don't overall have asthma as my lung function tests when not irrated by corny bagels is 98%
-prescription for singular which is probably too expensive to get compounded and I don't think I want to be taking that much medicine anyways! I'm fine as long as I don't have to sit in corny air.
-paperwork for allergy blood tests since my benadryl the night before prevents a skin test
I was starting to get snarky enough that before I left (after he asked me to come over the next time I had a reaction and I replied that my reactions do clear when I get away from allergen polluted air), that I did offer to let him pop a bag of popcorn and see what happens. He didn't take me up on it.
It's a good thing that I actually like paychecks, because idiots like that tempt me to go back to med school at times.
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Date: 2013-11-12 03:46 am (UTC)OMG, YES, PLEASE.
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Date: 2013-11-12 10:07 pm (UTC)