I don't like doctors appologizing to me unless it goes something like this...

*hand extended...concerned look on face* "Hello Mrs. Lixy. I'm soooooooo terribly sorry for making you wait 1 and 1/2 [+] hours for an appointment to see me. I know you're in pain/discomfort/snot running down your face...et al: and I have no right scheduling appointments for every 15 minutes when I know damn right well I can't get to my next patient for at least 1/2 hour or more. I listen to everyone's concerns and I am a good doctor when you finally get in to see me...but I have no common sense or caring in asking you to put your life on hold to sit in my stinky waiting room and catch who-knows-what from all the other sick people in there waiting for who knows how long. I should know better than to think that is why you are all called patients. Yep! Patience and patients are two different things and I am so sorry that I just now realized that"!

In my book...we are all human and prone to err at times. An appology wouldn't be right if a lawyer is standing behind it. On the other hand...the expectation of an appology wouldn't be right if a lawyer is standing behind it either! Seems to me that lawyers have ruined this whole "doctor/patient relationship" thing. All I expect is, if the doc makes a mistake and realizes it in time...he/she make it better to the best of their ability ASAP...and don't act like nothing was wrong. And...do it without that oh-so-fucked-up condescending attitude!

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Minds are like parachutes. They only work when they are open.

~Thomas Dewar~

^^^ I feel ya Lixy on the lawyer deal. But I do believe they are doing a service that a patient hired them for.

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-Summer
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Stop...you're making me !

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

The best doctor I have had is my current doctor. But the only one that had to apologize to me was a woman I told her I was having pain in my lower region and since I was young she told me I needed to stop having such rough sex. My mom ended up rushing me to the hospital because I passed out later that day and turns out that I had a ruptured cyst on my ovaries. She apologized but I stopped being her patient that day because she made it sound like it was a bother to even apologize.

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:3: Life is just one Fucking thing after another..

What I would give to hear a certain doctor in my town apologize for not giving me the time of day a about 4 years ago. If he would have checked me out just a tad more, my whole life could be different today. I wouldn't have gone on to a million other specialist to end up confirming what he suspected, after it was too late. Every time I see him, I could just scream.

But apologies are important. Yes, it may be admitting you are wrong at something, but peoples feelings are on the line. I find it important to apologize to someone if I have hurt them, so wish others felt the same.

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~Tainted Love~