Medical Malpractice.

[FCsteve]

ok, so i was born with hydronephrosis(swollen kidneys as a result of extreme backpressure), an extra tube on my one kidney and both of my kidney tubes are pinched off.

i posted it on here a couple months ago how my doctor planned me for surgery to just put stents in to fix the problem. but when i woke up after the " surgery" he tells me he did everything but didnt put the stents in or even fix anything cuz he misdiagnosed the problem. so i had to recover from that bullshit for a week and a half before i could work on my car or leave the house.

then the next month which was about a month and a half ago, me, my grandmother and my grandfather went to the doctor(im 19 but they pay my insurance so they came) to schedule and talk about the proper surgery to repair what is reperable. he gave me two options: 1. do open surgery and ill have 6 weeks recovery time- 2. do laser surgery and ill have 2 weeks recovery time with little to no scarring. .. so i obviously picked the second option because it has a month shorter recovery and there would be nearly no trace that the surgery happened.

so a week ago he calls me and says look, you need to come in thursday to get the stents put in so we can do the surgery. so i was kinda pissed cuz he talked a big game like it was easy surgery and now he is making me get two surgerys. so i was like ok whatever another week of downtime isnt so bad.

yesterday he called me and told me he might not be able to do the full surgery on both kidneys but he said he will try and if he has to take longer to do it he will. today my grandmother called to see what time i have to go in and how long im gonna be in the hospital. he tells her that he cancelled 4 hours of my surgery time cuz he doesnt want to do both surgerys in one day. WHAT ???????

so now on top of the week ive already been out, i have to go in at 6 tomorrow morning to get my kidneys checked out again because i have been in the worst pain of my life(i was prescribed perkasets and vicoden, which didnt even affect the pain whatsoever) and he thinks the stents might have moved ... ive been pissing blood and little redpieces of flesh since i left the hospital, if you ever pissed a chunk of anything you know that is fucking horrible. i also have one of the surgerys planned for tomorrow, two weeks of recovery time, then in another month he wants to plan the other surgery with another two weeks of recovery time, so ill be out and unable to do anything for around 3 months. and just for some topping on the cake he ordered me the strongest medication he says a doctor can prescribe(didnt tell me specifically what it is) and then tells me i have to pay the $450 for the one bottle of it because its not covered by insurance ???????

thats not going so well. he is gonna hear about this tomorrow from me. i have no shame in flipping out on him, im no doctor but WTF. i can see how people shoot lawyers and judges for fucking up their lives.

[maademperor]

one big problem people make with doctors is they A) dont get them to run down what they are doing and why (I suggest a recorder or pen and paper so you can jot down everything and refer to it for questions) and they just take whatever they say as the only option.

for a procedure like that, after the mis-diagnosis and failed surgery, somewhat off the rails timing of surgeries, ect, ect, I would suggest you get a second opionion before you go much further. I assume this doctor is not just your general practitioner doctor, but rather the surgeon? If so, you can take it up with whomever is chief surgeon at that hospital to request your case be reviewed by another physician. surgeons are generally mega assholes anyway. he should know better than to keep opening you up needlessly or because he doesnt want to do it all in one sitting (more opportunity for infection, medicinal complications, furher degradation of your ailments, ect, ect).

And you are in PA, not some back woods town somewhere, so I assume this isnt the same dude that also makes sure the cows deliver on time

[Applejack]

I would suggest consulting another physician. I work at a hospital and it's not at all uncommon for a patient to go from one doctor to another. Just for another opinion if anything.

[FCsteve]

i went to a "specialist" for my kidney problems, he is my kidney doctor/surgeon, not my general doctor. he told us exactly what he had to do and he went through it all with pictures when we were all there. and it seemed like nothing complicated and he said it wasnt a hard procedure. i have the surgery tomorrow so its too late for a second opinion. im just pissed at how decietful doctors are. if a mechanic fucks up your car so you have to come back thats one thing. but dont mess with a persons health and well-bieng. whenever i get done with these two other surgerys i will be changing doctors and telling this guy he can suck a fat one.

[maademperor]

late reply, but you can also consult with the hospitals administration on these types of things, they will investigate the case and let you know if there was any gross oversights on the surgeons part.