Family doctor

• What to do if I have family doctor and she doesn't act ethically. I have fibromyalgia that is why I need good care. She says she doesn't know anything about this and she doesn't want to know. I asked about good specialist from fibromyalgia. She didn't know so I did reaserch by myself and gave her some names. Unfortunately most of them don't take new patients, so she doesn't want even to try the others also the secretary does the appointment not her. Resently I have big pain in my knees, it came sudenly. I went to reumathologist by myself an I received cortizone injection it helped little but the pain returned so I saw my family doctor and asked about orthopedic doctor because I didn't have all necessary tests, she told that the orthopedic doctor would love at me that I came with such a problem. I think she is not qualified enough to be family doctor.I am P.Eng. here in Canada. My sister is a medical doctor in Europe I know little what I need. Why we can't have private clinic if we despirite to receive help. Maybe the family doctors would be more polite and more knowlegible for there patients if they knew that they have competition. Now they play kings and there is nothing people can do becuse there is not enough docotrs. In Eastern Europe even in communist times there were private clinics were you could go to doctor or do the necessary test. Nowerdays is even more such a clinics and the payment is not as big. Everybody who works can afford them. You have to understand that people who work are seek much often. There is a lot of sicknesses related to stress at work, like my fibromyalgia. The sick atmosphere at work. My supervisor didn't have education, so she was doing everything to prevent me from doing projects and the management did nothing, they just didn't care and stil don't care about people. It is government job. If you are more stuped you can go much further.
  But anyway what to do to get help with my knee, I feel hopeless. Many my friends go to Europe for treetment. My chidren wer brought up in Canada, so even if I wanted to go back to Europe they probably wouldn't. But to live in this country and to show my children how much I hate many things here is terrible. If i knew that the communist system will go I would never leave Europe. I realy hate this system and people here not want to change anything. How they can be happy with this primitive system, with uneducated rude family doctors which don't know anything and don't want to send to specialist. My daughter had gallstones attacks so for a whole year the doctors in the emegency kept telling that she has constipation and that it is why she is loosing conscious and had so severe attacks. i am not a doctor and I knew that is is something more serious. She could die when she was alone at home with the attack, she was still at school then. At one hospital they told that she is on drugs becuse she was vomiting. The health system here is the worst in the world, I never seen so unqualified doctors I used to travel a lot and I have many friends in different countries.
  I am woried about my future health in this country if I didn't have grown up children here I would leave right away.
  Where to complain about these unproffesional, unethical doctors? Please advise me they shoul be punished somehow. If not maybe to ask some international organiztiofor help.
  kt

  kt 09 Jan 2009, 10:42 - Report

Finding a family Doctor in Toronto