Have you ever had a bad experience with a bad doctor or nurse?

When I was in the hospital with my first son a nurse squeezed my IV bag and it burned like hell. I was in labor for 36 hours, I was fine but the doctor wanted to break my water so they could rush a c-section. My second experience, I saw the doctor for 7 minutes. He walked in with c-section already on his mind. I pushed two times and my second son came right out and the doctor left. Never once did he look me in my eyes. There should be some law prohibiting men to be OBGYNs. Male doctors suck!!
What's your experience?

With my first child I didn't get a c-section because I didn't need one. My son was just not ready to come yet. The doctor didn't want to wait. I can only assume Jeessie doesn't have any kids.You are not supposed to squeeze an IV bag cuz it can kill you.

I am a nurse and I apologize for all the negative experiences you've ever had. Sometimes, there's absolutely no excuse. Maybe it will help if you're aware that we are often overworked and some of us take shortcuts.

I don't know about your second OB/Gyn. I suppose that he's seen so many deliveries that it's become a depersonalized event to him. He also has no idea what it's like. But not all male doctors suck and not all female doctors suck either. There are good ones just as there are not so good ones.

The nurse who squeezed the IV bag was practicing poor nursing. We're not supposed to do that.

I too have had my bad experiences and overall I prefer female physicians. But I will go head-to-head with ANY doctor if I see bad practice in action.

Again, I'm sorry. It's individuals like these who give all of us a bad rep and it's prejudices a person against the next nurse or doctor she encounters who may be very conscientious.

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Most likely you NEEDED the fluids in a hurry so you would not bleed to death, moron.

And as for the second, I dunno.

I don't know where you get your information, but we squeeze iv bags all the time. It gets the fluid in faster. They make devices that squeeze iv bags.

They don't break your water to "rush a c-section". It sounds like your labor was not progressing, after 36 hours. The reason they do c-sections is to cut down on the number of DEAD BABIES, dear.

I do agree with you about many male OB/GYN docs, though. I think many of them are misogynists. (Look up the word, sweetheart).

Most of us know our doctors/midwives before we have our babies. If you don't like them, find another doctor.

I had hyper vantilation syndrome from an anxiety attack 7 months ago....ofcourse when I was having it,I had no idea what it was.I was shaking like a leaf,my heart was pounding and I thought I was having a HEART ATTACK or something.....anyway,when I got to the hospital,I did an ECG.and the nurse who did it was so rude,incooperative and all superior!!!!!!!.....I just felt like tossing her out of the ER!!!

I'm sorry to hear about your ordeal, but yes in L&D sometime we have to squeeze the IV bags to get more fluid into you faster (ie, if the baby's rate drops, we need to get fluids into you fast!!

Not all male doctors are bad, but it sounds like you may have ran into 2 of them, it's no excuse but ALL doctors have mood swings (I have been at the brunt of many), and they have they're good days and bad days.

I have had so many bad experiences I can hardly keep count, from simply not treating my condition seriously enough through to telling me what sexuality I am, that would be a sexually I am actually not.

The worst experience was with my current doctor, or should I say ex doctor?

I was not keen on her before hand because as well as not liking female doctors myself she also embarrassed and angered me at an earlier appointment when I asked her why I found orgasm to be painful and she laughed at me with a student doctor.

I used to use Fertility Awareness Method [FAM] as birth control, a highly effective form of birth control that also has advantages in aiding in conception, vaginal health and determining fertility problems long before tests via a doctor can. I noticed after a while of using FAM that there was something not quite right, I was still using FAM successfully but it meant I had to assume a longer fertile period so had to use barrier methods for more days than would be considered normal using this birth control method.

Anyway, I went to my doctor to ask for help because I knew there was something wrong (I won't bore you with the details), the very second I mentioned FAM she went off into a rant about how unreliable it was and how she knew of many women who got pregnant as a result of using FAM 鈥?in other words she did not know what FAM was and assumed it was the rhythm method 鈥?she would not let me get a single word in edgeways. After about five minutes of ranting I managed to get out that I was happy using it and would carry on using this method of birth control.
[I'll point out here I had been using FAM for some time, I have never gotten myself accidentally pregnant, practice safe sex within monogamous relationships, and thanks in part to FAM and in part to my own research I am very well educated about my body and female sexual/reproductive health - I am currently studying gynaecology]
Her reaction to hearing this was 'THEN YOU ARE A SILLY LITTLE GIRL WHO IS GOING TO GET HERSELF PREGNANT!!' I was an educated 22 year old at the time. She then went quite and started writing in her note book, I sat for a few minutes gob smacked before asking her if she was going to help me with my problem, her answer was a very sharp 'No.' before ignoring me again.

I barely made it out of the surgery before breaking down into tears, I felt as if not only she had attacked me but as if she had told me I did not have the right to become a mother 鈥?given as this could have effected my fertility 鈥?she did not respect my choice and attacked me for it based on her ignorance.

It got worse too 鈥?a month later I was getting bad chest pains, I had to go back to the surgery but I wanted to avoid her, problem was I did not know her name so I accidentally made an appointment with her. The moment I walked into her office she had a smug look on her face, she listened to my chest and told me I was fine 鈥?bad chest pains in someone who has had TB and asthma, saying I was fine was not a good enough answer. I ended up having to seek privet treatment, I had something serious wrong, it took two lots of treatment every week for around nine weeks, that I had to pay for because she refused to treat me.

It's common to get people looking at you like you have two heads if you don't use hormonal birth control, people pressuring you to go on birth control, generally treating you differently or simply being ignorant about your choice leaving you having to explain it to them, but her reaction was just disgusting. What made it worse is that I gave up on defending myself, I couldn't do it anymore, I just got myself a copper IUD and put up with using something I didn't want to use.

Lets face it, when it comes to issues of female sexual health doctors are ignorant and society is coloured by all sorts of issues that make it hard for women to have real choice.