Posted by utopizen on November 14, 2002, at 14:34:57
Today I visited my new GP and he gave me a physical. Well I just got a physical in August from my old GP, but after signing a release and paying a $30 processing fee (which my new doc's secretary said isn't legal to ask for) it still wasn't there 2 weeks after asking for it.
Oh well. Anyway, he did a physical. Okay, I realize since I was 12 my doctor never spent more than 4 1/2 minutes during my physicals, but still, one hour is pretty excessive, isn't it? And he tried to take down my underwear without even asking, and I just shouted, "no, you don't."
He tried to quack his way out of it by claiming how if he doesn't then these days he'll be sued. I should of told him off on how he'd find it easier than explaining to a judge why he had to undress a fully independent adult without even asking first.
Compounding the issue was that when I was 13, a boy scoutmaster had me go in for a "fitting session" to try on a baiting suit. For all I know it was 30 minutes, because I literally entered a state of shock as it happened that made me feel paralyzed as he "measured" me. He then went to my dad right after and told my dad how I've got to work on my shyness problem when changing clothes near others. If my dad wasn't so naive, or better yet I was him, I'd throw him to a car door and stand there until someone got a rope that would secure him until we got to the police.
Anyway, that was never reported, I didn't want to put my family in that mess. But at least I've gotten older since then and am assertive enough to stop things before they get out of hand.
And you must really think I'm nuts, but I'm actually probably going to keep him because he is analyzing my blood in a way that may find a CNS defect that causes my ocassional split-second shoulder shrug twitching now and then a few times a week. After reading up on Dilantin, I learned this may be a result of not a chemical imbalance, but too much electric dissonance between my nerve signals. Hence why SSRIs have done nothing for my anxiety.
Also, Dilantin has worked in people with cold hands and feet, which I have. He didn't mention Dilantin as a potential treatment, but I don't know what else would treat it, and it's odd he even cares since even my p-doc doesn't care about this tic thing, he dismissed it from day one. I only care now because I think it's linked to my anxiety and maybe even ADD. And he's just sort of confirmed this belief with me.
But it's odd, since he's anti- p-meds, and it's not like there's non-medicinal ways to correct nerve dysfunction, right?
I've had this twitch since puberty started, it appears to slowly fade away right now, but still occurs a few times per week.
Oh, anyway, he said he was checking me for "hemroids." Im 19. I told him that's only something old people get, and he was like, well I couldn't be liable. Then I told him my former stanford GP gave my a physical in August and never checked, so why on Earth should I take some new GP's word for it when I don't even know what school he went to?
Oh, and he did a bunch of tests that he asked if others did before, and I told him no. He kept saying, "really? I'm surprised!" Geez. Probably because you're 95 and your ECG machine was probably stolen when you were in WWII, and every single test you do has probably been invalidated as unuseful or purposeless by now.
One of the things he did was have me follow his two fingers with my eyes. I asked him if he was checking my visual tracking, and he said no in a condescending way, but wouldn't explain what he was checking.
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