About 4 months ago I went to my doctors appointment. It’s at a clinic and everybody has to check-in with the receptionist before they are seen. It’s in a three floor medical office building and the mental health offices only take up one floor. So on other floors there are heart doctors, a pharmacy, x-rays, etc. But four months ago I went in and checked in and told the receptionist that my information was the same as usual–same phone number, same address, same Medicare number. But she produced a plastic medical wrist band for me to wear. I’m sure everybody’s seen them. They are just flimsy white bands you get when you are seen at a hospital. But I am not in a hospital and I actually found them insulting and demeaning. Just the mental health people had to start wearing them from then on. I am not an ambulatory patient, the clinic has a a high functioning clientele and though everybody in the waiting room looks normal I’m sure they are sick and don’t want it advertised by these bands that they are seeking psychiatric treatment. I am not assertive but I pride myself on fitting in and I found those new wristbands a step backwards. And I complained. For several minutes. She told me it’s the new policy, EVERYBODY has wears them . So she put one on me. I went to the waiting room and took it off. A month later they stopped doing it without a word. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who complained.
Yeah nick, I wouldn’t like that either. It would be like marking the mentally ill.
Yeah, and like I said it felt like a step backward.
That is strange - I would not like it at all. Never heard of something like this happening before
It’s good that yours speaking up worked. It’s good you did it.
It’s like a identification to say “hey, I’m sz!” I think you did a good job by fighting it. Dunno if I would have done the same. Me being a passive person. I maybe would have asked annoying questions, but not started a fight. Props!
one of the psy staff here told me to find a sympathetic doctor, why? since when did sz make me unclean and unwanted, if they treated cancer or heart disease patients like that people would be up in arms, I don’t have much time for doctors, their all in pockets of big Pharma