SO I WAS SENT TO A MONEY MAKING MILL OF SPECIALISTS AND LEFT DISTRAUGHT

Two weeks in a row I am sent for really bad healthcare.  Look there are a lot of really good PA specialists, but there are also really bad ones.

So last week after months of fighting with the VA I was sent to an oral surgeon for possible TMJ surgery.  The MRI clearly shows either inflammation is blocking the mandible, or the bone was damaged from the mastoiditis.  The left ear function is clearly a mess.  My sinuses remain a mess.  I cannot sleep because the whistling from my left nostril is so loud.  Both my ears are congested.  Swallowing is nearly impossible.  I am on a mush diet.

The oral surgeon was honest enough to say he could not read an MRI.  His PA kept on saying, " I have no idea what I am looking at."  I was sent away with no care or solution.  Now again, based on my endless complaining I will finally be sent to the dental school in San Antonio.  The VA says there is no qualified oral surgeon in South Texas.  It could be months before I get care.

So today left me incredibly distraught.  The PA knew I caught her engaged in malpractice.  She simply did not care.  Last week I had 5 polyps removed from my stomach.  In June there were none.  The biopsy shows they were PPI induced.  Their words not mine.  It is caused by Pantoprazole.  I was on an initial 3 month dosage, but it has been extended indefinitely. I am going off of it.  I was put on it in October.

When I see a doctor I go prepared.  I had the pathology report.  I asked her how many polyps were removed.  She said the report did not say.  She actually thought I was going to believe the pathologist did not say how many polyps he looked at. It clearly listed 5 of different sizes.  She lied.  Three indicated they were PPI induced.  The protocol is to take the patient off  the PPI or monitor them.  In the colon 3 polys mean every 5 years 4 or more means every 3 years.

I asked her if I needed to go off the Pantoprazole because of the PPI induced polyps.  She clearly said they were not PPI induced.  I had the report wherein the pathologist said they are PPI induced.

The purpose of the referral was stomach paralysis.  There was no mention of it today.  They want me to stay a mush diet.  I cannot get bread or meat down.  It gets stuck in my throat.  I cannot eat anything raw.  

So tomorrow I will tell my diabetes doctor it may be time to take me off of Ozempic.  Ozempic can cause stomach paralysis.  Also I am one of the patients who gains weight on Ozempic.  Insulin resistance can cause weight gain.  I have gained 6 pounds.  Also my A1C1 remains bad even though I am on Ozempic and insulin.

I take two bites and I feel full.  I am not digesting.  I choke while sipping water.

Then came time to discuss the dilating of my throat during the procedure.  Again I was given the summary report at the clinic where they scoped me.  They told me my throat was restricted and they had to dilate my throat.   She said no, it is something they just do.  That is not what the note says.  And in fact the particular procedure they used to dilate my throat is the one when the throat is very narrow.

I explained to her I choke when I drink water.  She responded I had to do a better job chewing.  I said, how do you chew water?  This is what happens when you are trained to not listen.

This place is a money making machine.  I do not believe my primary specialist knew what is happening at this clinic when he referred me for my stomach paralysis which he verified with a special test.

Depending on your appointment time the waiting room could be standing room only.  The personnel parking law is half full, and the patient one is  full forcing people to park on the street.

A 9:30 appointment should not be at 10:30.  If you are behind an hour by 9:30, you are over booking patients.

The care is highly questionable.  You see one doctor for the consult.  Another doctor scopes you.  After the procedure he does not speak to you.  What little information you get is from a summary report they give you.  The follow-up is with an incompetent PA.  The PA was not in the room during the scoping and has no idea what was done, or what the doctor saw.  This is a malpractice waiting to happen.  She did not even read the pathology report, or worse if she did she just lied about the findings. 

I am agreeing to the Modified Barium swallow because it is done by someone at Valley Regional and not this team.   I will ask the VA to refer me to the VA in San Antonio.  One reason I like my local specialist is because he is not embarrassed to say, you need to see a subspecialist.

ON THAT NOTE

I sent someone to San Antonio to see one of my specialists.  You know what they learned, the local specialist wasted 7 months of their time.  They did the wrong MRI.