Seeking a second opionon

13 years 10 months ago #32012 by kmcintosh
Seeking a second opionon was created by kmcintosh
My husband is supposed to have his biopsy tomorrow.
But, we are going to seek a second opinion.
We are not comforable with his current urologist.
This is what happened.
We called his urologist to tell him that Bill was seeing a new pulmonary doctor and he was being put on new RX's and that the pulmonary doctor wanted to make sure his lungs were strong enough for the biopsy surgery. We really like the pulmonary doctor, he takes his time and is very therow.
Anyway, when we called the urologist office and ask that the doctor be told about Bill lungs, and Bill also asked if a PET scan should be done to find out more about the the tumor.
In two hours we got a call from the urologist, and he let my husband have IT!
NO you dont need a PET scan and if you're going to second guess meet maybe you should seek another doctor, I know my business and this is the proper way to go.
We were so shocked by is reaction that I took the phone from my husband and very calmly ask the doctor that I would hope that you would respect patiences who asked questions and wanted to know as much as they could about thier medical issues.
He said, well this is the message I got from you and He read it to us. " Bill wants to know why you are not doing a PET scan on him, he feels one should be done." nothing was mentions about his lungs in the message. I told him that's not the message we left, I didn't even get a chance to tell him about by husbands lungs. He said, there must have been a commuiation gap.
but still we feel, that no matter what the message was he should not have attacked my husband. We feel he should have called and talked to him calming instead of feeling insulted.


That same day we had an appt. with the pulmonary doctor, he ask if we had a chance to talk with the urologist. We told him about the called. the pulmonary doctor called him right them and there. He got an answering machine and started to tell him about Bill's pulmonary problems, he was able to leave his name phone number and my husbands name then the answer maching ran out of room. Pulmonary doctor said, urologist will return his call if he cares. Have not heard from urologist as of yet.
We feel his reaction is a RED Flag of him and is office staff.
Thank you,
Kathleen

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