Improving the Patient-Doctor Relationship

If I could select every single option, I would!! I am ALWAYS disappointed when I leave a doctor's appointment.

Access to a regularly-available woman physician. The only people I can get into are whatever registrar is on, and nowhere seems to be taking new patients lately. I'd also be fine with having a regular male physician as long if they took my concerns seriously.

I wish my doctors would stop telling me it's my fault I was abused since birth

I'd like to be able to have an ongoing physician that is queer- and trans-affirming, but I keep having to hop from doctor to doctor bc of them leaving the practice I use. (It's a queer-focused company with sliding-scale, but the management is not great so there's a lot of employee turnover.)

Definitely the cost

The cost of meds and the issues with drugs that work and insurance will not pay. I have been given so many, like Orencia will cost me 1700$ a month! I am on Soc Security Disability. I only get 750$ a month. Fortunately my husband has a good job, but not enough for that price. So frustrating!

After a lifetime of being gaslit and dismissed, I have given up. I would rather not be here than listen to one more condescending twit ask if I've tried panadol.

Find a compatible doctor. It’s like finding a compatible friend or lover Use astrology

I would prefer all my doctors actually working and communicating together, even possibly meeting all my Dr's in the same appointment once a year. I would like to at least be able to text the drs directly and know they will be the ones responding

Longer appointment times and after appointment cre and follow up (e.g. on referrals)

I need to find a new one but don't know where to begin. I need one, but at the same feel fine on my own because I've dealt with a lot of problems by myself

Believing me? I had my physician tell me I was lying about my symptoms/making them up because she hadn’t seen it in Ehlers Danlos before. And I thought “I have got these physical symptoms and they’re pretty fucking real”

How are we, a patients, being charged a fee for being late or missing our appointment...while we show up on time and wait 1-2 hours... there's a reason people are starting to turn to "witch doctors"

To have one would be nice. There isn't an adult ADHD service in my area. It simply doesn't exist. I had to go private for diagnosis, and ran out of money. So I can't access a specialist at all.

I wish my physicians talked to each other more! I’m getting all of this conflicting advice and treatments, and if I could find some that would work as a team I think things would go a lot smoother

All of the above.

I would love for their notes, comments, etc. (that are put in your file) to state the same thing as what they actually tell you personally. For someone who suffers from widespread whole body pain, it is very detrimental for the Dr to be vague and misleading in their documentation. For example: one of my old pain Drs would ask me specifically, "How is your back pain today?" I would answer specifically how my back pain was. "Today, my back pain is not too bad." In his documentation in my file, he wrote, "Patient denies being in pain today." That is not a true statement and is very misleading.

My doctor is amazing. I wouldn't change a thing!

My primary Physician listens and gives me quality time. It’s the specialist they send you too, they are in a hurry and just want to throw an RX at you. I have seen three Rheumatologist and every single one of them have a different opinion so I have decided to not see them anymore. Just see my primary.

To not write everything off as a symptom of depression even after I explicitly told them that I had brought a friend with me because I was nervous I would be written off 🙄🙄🙄

I just want to be believed when I express my symptoms! I often feel docs think I’m exaggerating and they care more about “being right” than they do about listening to me with empathy and providing the proper care based off of what I’ve actually expressed to them!

For communication to be smoother between them and the specialists/hospital. They give everything and then I have to let their receptionist know to chase up things the specialists could just send through in a simple discharge summary... Continuation of care is nearly impossible so I'm constantly repeating myself for every professional I have to see...

I would make them less cautious because i’m tired of going on ssris for months just for them to not work. I need benzos but nobody will give them

When I say I have RA in my back, hips, neck, shoulders, elbows, and knees, please stop touching my hands and feet. It's not in my wrists or ankles. Those are all in your documentation. These are the reasons I'm getting a referral to a different Rheumatologist...

I wish it could be put simply. Respect, I guess? I feel like my doctors act like my pain is not real and as if I am faking and as if I am not valid in my pain. I wish they could respect me as a young person in a lot of pain.

More availability for casual meetings. So many times wasters farming insurance or just don't give a shit. Would love to be able to have a meet and greet for a nominal fee to weed out the mass amount of slackers.

For him to believe me when I talk about my pain and not question the ra diagnosis that my previous doctor who retired gave me!!!

Why this was set up as "choose only one". I wanted to click most of them, and hard to decide which was more important. They all are. Very much reflects what many of us are dealing with when we go to a med appt - you might get this one thing, but none of the others.

I would prefer if he told me which fricking type of dermatitis I had💀