Okay, I'm going to TRY to state this objectively, though I am still STEAMING mad! :angryfire :angryfire
My husband was booked for an angiogram last January. He wanted to cancel it, but the cardiologist pretty much railroaded him into having it done. Although he has a-fib, she took him off his coumadin, and did not put him on an alternant blood thinner, such as Fragmin or Lovenox. He suffered a fairly major stroke the day after the procedure.
He spent a month in hosptial following the stroke. When he got home, we booked an appointment with her to follow up on the angiogram. She cancelled this appointment, and rebooked it for a later date (not the first time that had happened!) He never kept the later appointment because he was back in in hospital with a major bleed from his bladder.
When the bleeding slowed down, the urologist did a cystoscope under general anesthetic. Following the anesthetic, my husband aspirated, went into a-fib, suffered a major M.I. and came pretty close to dying. He's been home from hospital just over a month now, and is doing remarkably well, considering everything he went through.
HOWEVER, the cytology report from the washing done on his bladder was positive for cancer cells, and we very much need to have further investigation done on the bladder, but cannot do so until the cardiologist gives us the green light. He had a nuclear stress test done 2 weeks ago, and was to see the cardiologist the next day.
Again, she cancelled the appointment. We rebooked it for today, only to have it cancelled yet again!! The reasons given are various. Today, she had to pick her daughters up from school (apparently, when the appointment was rebooked, she forgot about this little detail ) On other occasions, it was because she had to go back to the States to look after patients there, or because she had to go to court over the custody battle she is having with her ex-husband over their kids.
Fortunately, the cardiologist she shares an office with is able to see my husband later this week. He is willing to take my husband on as a patient, which makes me very, very happy. I am angry enough at his partner to spit nails, [well, that's not ALL I'd like to do, but I have to keep the TOS in mind here...] and I am very, very seriously considering reporting her to the Canadian Medical Association. My husband has been out of hospital for over a month now, and she has not seen him since before his stroke in January!! When I talked to her today, she sounded like she was totally oblivious to everything that had happened to him since the stroke (she DID know about that).
I seriously think she should not be practising medicine until she gets her act together, and am wondering if I have grounds to report her to the Canadian Medical Association for neglect.
) On other occasions, it was because she had to go back to the States to look after patients there, or because she had to go to court over the custody battle she is having with her ex-husband over their kids.