I was very surprised and dismayed by the way I was treated by this doctor and his office.
I don't know what I could've done to cause them to behave this way or to correct this situation.
Apparently doctor did not remember that he had ordered additional allergy testing for me.
That would be fine, I don't expect anyone to be perfect, but he treated me like I was an idiot because I thought he had ordered additional testing.
I went and gave people my blood so that stood out to me more personally than it may have to him, but he had the benefit of the opportunity to look at my chart to see whether or not he had actually ordered more tests or received the results before yelling at me about it.
I had not seen the results on MyChart after several weeks so I called the office to ask them if my allergy test results had been returned and they told me that they had but that I could not be told the results over the phone, that I would have to see the doctor in order to get those results.
So they scheduled me an appointment for this specifically ahead of the time that had previously been pre-arranged.
He told me that he wanted to see me in three months. It took them two months to order the tests. So I had gone and gotten them two weeks before this visit.
I came to see the doctor and he was very miffed that I was there that day as if it were a real imposition on him to see me.
He thought that I was there to talk to him about previous allergy testing that had been done.
I had been told already by the lab that the first test indicated that I had an abnormal result and that I was still allergic.
But I wasn't there to ask about that test or question his judgment about it.
Then he started telling me that I was not allergic and that the result I had gotten indicated that my reaction wasn't strong enough to be considered an allergy.
I was there to ask him about the other tests, not that one.
Pardon me, but I do believe that it is the doctor's responsibility to keep track of what tests are ordered, when they come back, and then to tell me what they mean in a timely fashion.
There must be some problem with the way that notation was made on the chart because he and his office made the same mistake.
He actually said to me that I was "being really annoying".
And I said "I wasn't meaning to be annoying" and he said "well at least you admit it"
I was trying to explain to him that we were talking about two different results but I couldn't get him to listen to me long enough to clarify it.
I have never had a doctor talk to me this way in my whole life.
The results of the additional tests I had taken showed up on MyChart the following day.
I should have quit while I was ahead.
Before I left scheduled an appointment to see Dr. Ericson for an audiology screening the following week and they scheduled me an appointment.
I was so flustered by the way I had been treated that when I was on my way out that I forgot to get the address because they have two offices.
So I called on the phone and said "I need to know the address of the office to go to for my appointment with Dr. Ericson."
She apparently gave me the wrong address, so I'm in my car right now just absolutely fuming outside the empty office that is closed. I didn't get my hearing appointment today.
If I am charged for a missed appointment there will be hell to pay. I will not reschedule with this office for any reason. Noone needs this hassle from a health care provider or his office staff. read more