walk-in clinic doctors

[charly]

is there even such a thing as a good walk-in clinic doctor?

i'm beginning to doubt that.

thanks for helping me with icbc claim, fucktard. at least on monday i can see my normal doctor. :\

[mapleleaf4ever]

They make you wait forever and are all disgruntled. I avoid them at all costs. :)

[rawb]

the few on davie at the carepoint are really good.

[charly]

^ yeah? i'll keep that in mind if i need someone again. thanks.

i get to see my family doctor on monday, but until then i'm just going to be gimped on robax platinum.

[diva]

For the most part they're pretty shitty because they're trying to make their money on volume and don't really want to spend more than 15 minutes with you.

Family doctors are always better to go see because they know you and the continuity of care is always there.

Walk-in docs don't know shit about you if you've never been there before, so they're basically feeling their way through the dark whenever you go in for a visit.

It's really shitty that the government doesn't make going into family medicine more lucrative for doctors. Most meds students scoff at going into family practice because they'd never make enough money to pay back their loans within 20 years. I think it takes the average doctors well into their 40 to pay back the debt from their educations. My old psychiatrist used to be a family doctor, but switched into psychiatry because the pay was shit--which it is when you consider that the average med student leaves school with almost 100k in debt and don't start making a full doctor's salary until they finish their residencies.

Here's a link for the pay stats in BC.
http://www.healthservices.gov.bc.ca/...statement.html

Anyways, i think the system is fucked. I'm glad that we'll soon be able to see Nurse Practitioners for most of the stuff GPs usually take care of.
ps. carepoint is on the verge of going under i think.

[veN]

Ive had mostly good experiences, but I avoid them as much as possible. Once I got a hottie that looked JUST like Noah Wile (sp?). He was so dreamy I didn't mind him cutting open my absessed ear and draining it. Hehe...

[Grapes]

I've had good experiences with Clinic doctors. The one who got the Q-tip end out of my ear was very nice, and he kept the laughter to a minimum, even when I told him I was trying to get it out with my vacuum cleaner.

[Tayfoon]

Ghetto

[Joanne]

Originally Posted by diva

For the most part they're pretty shitty because they're trying to make their money on volume and don't really want to spend more than 15 minutes with you.

this statement can just as easily be applied to family doctors. my last family doctor is like that and I stopped seeing her about 4 years ago. while I was on a hunt for a new family doctor, I asked one of them how many problems can I go in asking and she told me straight up that it doesn't matter how many, as long as each appointment lasts approx 10-15 minutes.

Originally Posted by diva

Walk-in docs don't know shit about you if you've never been there before, so they're basically feeling their way through the dark whenever you go in for a visit.

since I stopped seeing my family doctor, I've only ever gone to walk-in clinics. I find that depending on what the problem is, not having knowledge about my entire health history is hardly a huge issue anyway.


Cheryl: what was the problem with the walk-in clinic doctors? were they assholes, or did you just find them incompetent?

--Joanne :P

[LLaaUUrrYYn]

I go to clinics. My family doctor always brushes me off. I had a fracture in my foot, and he told me it was nothing. The doctor from the clinic sent me to get xrays right away. BANG a fracture. I go to a walk in clinic in walnut grove and the doctors always make me feel like im being taken care of. I like that. =D

[tvmann]

I saw a doc at a walk-in clinic & he did a good job but he didn't want to deal with more than 1 or 2 issues, presumably he wanted me to come back for extra visits. Like I had a couple of questions written down so as to not waste his time and get the most out of the visit, you hear so much in the media about how they're overworked. Well I'm not so sure about that.

I've got a friend with asthma and he know everything about asthma, more than the doctor maybe, and he gets really annoyed when they force him to come back to see the doctor every time he needs a simple prescription refill - obviously a cash grab.

[TheCooker]

Walk in Clinic doctors have regular practices. They all go in on a circuit and work one or two days a week at a walk in. They don't see they're regular patiences there, so they don't have that rapport. I understand this, the thing I hate is all the weirdo's in the waiting room! >=]

[charly]

Originally Posted by bananasinpjs

Cheryl: what was the problem with the walk-in clinic doctors? were they assholes, or did you just find them incompetent?

he just didn't care, at all.
i go in with back/neck problems after being in a car accident the previous day. i wait (very uncomfortably) in the waiting room, and when i finally get to see someone it's for about 5 minutes. i sat down, he asked about the accident so i told him what happened. he didn't really listen and basically just threw down a referrel for a back xray, and told me i shouldn't be working (office job).

i was fairly disappointed, but i'm not worrying really at the moment. i can't even go in for an xray until monday, but i've made an appointment with my family doctor for that day, so i'll talk to him about it. if he wants an xray done, i can get it done that day, at the clinic. (he's pretty rad, which is why i'm rather upset that he'll be retiring within a few years)

[Miss T]

i actually got my regular doctor at a walk-in clinic. so it was good cuz she is great. but i've got a guy before with a creepy sleepy eye. wierded me out!!

[bebu*funfun]

i had the bestestestest walk in clinic doc in the whole wide world, but he went east to take some workshops or something. i miss him a lot..i ask about him every time i go to the docs. he was more than a doctor.. he was like a friend who earned my trust and actually sat down and listened to my problems, without just shoving me anti-biotics. i had a few tears trickle down my cheek when i found out he was leaving. dr. morris...bestest doc in the world.

[Grapes]

I thought my vacuum cleaner story would be sure to get some laughs :( Or at least some karma!

[Joanne]

Originally Posted by charly

he just didn't care, at all.
i go in with back/neck problems after being in a car accident the previous day. i wait (very uncomfortably) in the waiting room, and when i finally get to see someone it's for about 5 minutes. i sat down, he asked about the accident so i told him what happened. he didn't really listen and basically just threw down a referrel for a back xray, and told me i shouldn't be working (office job).

i was fairly disappointed, but i'm not worrying really at the moment. i can't even go in for an xray until monday, but i've made an appointment with my family doctor for that day, so i'll talk to him about it. if he wants an xray done, i can get it done that day, at the clinic. (he's pretty rad, which is why i'm rather upset that he'll be retiring within a few years)

the doctor you saw probably knows shit all about neck and back injuries, and I suppose there's not much they can really do if they don't know about it.

but the thing is, I can understand that medicine is a ridiculously huge field and I don't expect doctors to know everything. but what peeves me off a lot is when a doctor doesn't make a point in trying to find good answers for you, or at least referring you to resources that CAN help you!

heh, when I got rear-ended a couple of years ago, I went in to see a walk-in clinic doctor to get a referral for a chiropractor. all I fucking wanted was a referral, and she starts lecturing me about not braking too hard, as if I didn't feel bad enough about the whole situation :P

--Joanne :P

edit: if anyone knows of a good GP in the south vancouver area, please let me know!

[charly]

Originally Posted by bananasinpjs

the doctor you saw probably knows shit all about neck and back injuries, and I suppose there's not much they can really do if they don't know about it.

but the thing is, I can understand that medicine is a ridiculously huge field and I don't expect doctors to know everything. but what peeves me off a lot is when a doctor doesn't make a point in trying to find good answers for you, or at least referring you to resources that CAN help you!

heh, when I got rear-ended a couple of years ago, I went in to see a walk-in clinic doctor to get a referral for a chiropractor. all I fucking wanted was a referral, and she starts lecturing me about not braking too hard, as if I didn't feel bad enough about the whole situation :P

--Joanne :P

edit: if anyone knows of a good GP in the south vancouver area, please let me know!

that wouldn't surprise me. though he really didn't handle it all that well. i don't expect them to know everything, but he could've at least just said "hey this really isn't my area, so you'd be better off seeing someone else who could actually help you" instead of just not really listening and throwing down an xray. i figure some of them just hate to admit when they don't know something.

(ps - i don't know the limits of south vancouver, but my doctors office is granville & 7th. him and the other doctors i've seen there are all pretty rad.)

[Draven GD]

when he makes me wait i like to take all the tounge depressors, lick em, then put them back. mabey ill just turn this up a little bit, whatever that does... :P

[crookedking]

Originally Posted by charly

is there even such a thing as a good walk-in clinic doctor?

i'm beginning to doubt that.

thanks for helping me with icbc claim, fucktard. at least on monday i can see my normal doctor. :\

they have such an easy job.

oh your head hurts? here have a prescription.

oh it hurts to breathe? go and see a real doctor.

[zarlon]

i had to go to a walk in clinic a while ago and the one thing i noticed was the "medical assistant" (cough, receptionist) was a fucking BITCH. the doctor was ok..

but there was some lady obviously in major pain from some kind of stomach problem or maybe urinary tract infection, just sitting silently on a chair, tears running down her face and she was holding her tummy tight and just rocking back and forth.

the wait was so fucking long, she finally got up, ran for the door, yelped and fell over, and the receptionist bitch did NOTHING. one of the patients waiting to see the doctor had to get up and grab the lady a drink of water, maybe the receptionist should have asked her if she needed an ambulance or something.

fuck walk ins.

[sinnerman]

Most of the docs are ok (once you finally get to see them), but the receptionists are the worst! Each time I have to deal with a walk-in clinic receptionist I get a little bit closer to taking up arson . . .

[BrownThug]

those fuckbuckets at the walk in clinincs dont know whats up
i went to one liek a month and a half ago cuz i felt fucked up and they said nothign was wrogn and gave me this cough syrup...
it didnt work and i went back 2 weeks ago and thye said nothign is wrong and told me toget a fucking inhaler
then i went to emergency at VGH cuz i couldnt breathe properly and i found out that ive had bronchitis for over a month and i have pnemonia now cuz it wasnt treated
FUCKIGN ASSHOLES
it took a week of the antibiotics the hospital gave me and a week of sleep with a high fever to get rid of it...
all because the walk in clinic doctors are too stupid to know whats up

[Joanne]

Originally Posted by BrownThug

those fuckbuckets at the walk in clinincs dont know whats up
i went to one liek a month and a half ago cuz i felt fucked up and they said nothign was wrogn and gave me this cough syrup...
it didnt work and i went back 2 weeks ago and thye said nothign is wrong and told me toget a fucking inhaler
then i went to emergency at VGH cuz i couldnt breathe properly and i found out that ive had bronchitis for over a month and i have pnemonia now cuz it wasnt treated
FUCKIGN ASSHOLES
it took a week of the antibiotics the hospital gave me and a week of sleep with a high fever to get rid of it...
all because the walk in clinic doctors are too stupid to know whats up

I know someone been recently diagnosed with a pretty unheard of condition. every family doctor told her it was all in her head or that it wasn't really anything. the only doctor who was accurately able to guess the exact condition and refer her to the proper specialist was a walk-in clinic doctor.

geez people... having the title of a "walk-in" clinic doctor is something that I don't believe should really equate with poor clinical decision-making skills. there are good doctors and bad doctors and you can find them in both walk-in clinics AND family practices!!

--Joanne :P