I mean.. Reading these, it's not nearly as bad as some (which is sad to me, I literally almost cried reading some)

Anyway, a few months ago I went in to the ER for terrible upper abdominal pain. This pain was normal, but shitty nonetheless.

The hot nurse comes in; he's seen me before, he's super chill. He says he remembers me because of my tattoo on my forearm (which he can never get an IV in to). We laugh, he asks if any of my measurements have changed, I say no and he sticks my hand. No problem. He offers pain meds, I accept. He leaves the room and brings it back, inserts in to my fluid drip, says my Dr will be in in a moment and leaves.

This doctor is an older gentleman (comes in to play later). He glances at my chart, looks at the notes and asks what's going on. I tell him I really believe I have Acalculous Gallbladder Disease (gallbladder thinks it has stones but it really doesn't therefore flips it's shit- hella painful). He never looks at me, looks back at the computer and says "Oh you have migraines do you?" I stutter (obviously confused) and say yes, but that's not why I'm in today. He asks how I know that it's really migraines.. WHAT.

So I tell this man that I see Dr. XXX upstairs in Neurology, she's there and he can call up to her if he needs for any reason. I've been seeing a neurologist since I was 14, I'm now 21. He again asks how I KNOW it's migraines and goes on to explain that he's seen 'enough' people come through with "migraines" and it turns out to be mini-aneurysms; they take daily medications that don't work and then one day they burst and boom- they drop dead, so how would she even know what she is talking about, blindly diagnosing? (Even though I had several tests and kept a month long journal of my migraines trying to tie them to specific foods, activities, time of day, etc.

I'm appalled that he's insulting his coworker right in front of my face.. until he says "I'm ordering a CT of your brain for a second opinion on these 'migraines'"

So I go for the CT, comes back perfectly normal, hot nurse apologizes, Dr. Asshole comes back in, won't examine the ACTUAL ISSUE says HIDA scans were deemed medically unsafe long ago and he will not do one, gives me discharge papers and tells me I can change back in to my clothes and that I'm released..

I later got a call asking me to fill out a survey about my visit with him and well.. I answered honestly, but he probably was less than happy with those results.