I recently started having more problems than I could handle on my own and got a referral from my doctor to a gastro for a colonoscopy. Actually my appointment turned out to be with a P.A. who was an idiot. (I don't have a problem w/PA's, just idiots.) Less than 60 seconds after entering the room he smugly announced he thought I had IBS from stress and asked if anyone had ever told me that. I glared at him and said no. It went downhill from there. He finally actually looked at the four page history I had to fill out. I had forgotten to put my former doctors names and addresses on the back of the page (there was not a place to put them). He then reared back in his chair and smugly rolling his eyes asked "Just who TOLD you you had Crohn's?". When I started naming Drs., including the man considered the top diagnostic doctor in the area I used to live in (about 75 miles away, he's heard of him), he backed off a little but was not helpful. He started to leave the room and I asked if he was going to schedule a colonoscopy he asked if I thought I needed one. I informed him I hadn't had one in 5 years and my regular doctor thought I did but if he wanted to call her and tell her different go ahead.

I was given an appointment, two months away. (If I get worse they said to call. It is and I won't.) It is finally getting near, July 27, and I am scared the entire group of Dr.s may be as idiotic as this guy. He is new to their practice and I don't know if his attitude is indicative of the rest of the group. I have called and asked who I will be seeing afterward and been assured that I will be seeing a real dr. and not the idiot. (I did refer to him as the idiot "Smith" btw after being assured I did not have to see HIM again. The lady I was talking to laughed out loud when I called him that. Is that a good sign?)

Everyone in this office is helpful and nice. They work with my insurance company and I don't even have to pay my co-pay the day of the surgery. My regular P.A., whom I love and found after much trial and error, thinks highly of the group. They will even let me pay it off in installments. I can't afford to not use this group. The problem is the closer it gets to time the more nervous I get.

What if the Dr. I'm seeing is as aloof and self-worshiping as the idiot "Smith"? Over the years I have learned to expect less than nothing from Dr.s. and I have trouble making myself go unless I am in miserable shape, which I am getting into at this time.

This has turned into a rant and I am sorry about that. Are there any doctors out there that are reassuring and nice? I sure would like to hear about one.