Has anyone ever switched doctors?

Dawn_from_MN · April 5, 2006

I have been having some problems with my band and not getting a lot of help from my doctor. Today I had all the Fluid removed from my band. I had 2cc in a 4 cc band. I was having problems with throwing up everything I attempted to eat. I had an upper GI and there is nothing wrong with the band. The doctor and I disagreed on whether to remove the fluid from the band. I won that conversation. What I am trying to find out is if another doctor would take me on as a patient? I am having a hard time dealing with a doctor that didn't seem to care that I have been throwing up 75% of what I ate. Has anyone switched doctors?

lessISmore · April 5, 2006

I have switched doctors twice. Once because I moved and once because I was not happy with the advice my doctor gave me. We are all entitled to a second opinion and, indeed, we should be getting them if we have a shadow of a doubt as to our treatment. The doctor is the expert but he/she works for you and in the end it is what you think/feel that will be of any importance to you. Do not let anyone run you over with their opinion.*

*~Hard won knowledge from 50 years of living mostly at the whim of others.~

Bonnie