I went to my GP with a mole on my leg that was throbbing. There had just been a program on TV showing the sad death of a young sydney man from melanoma. His last words were for people to heed the symptoms. My GP was concerned enough to send me to a dermatologist. When I arrived there, the receptionist treated me very condescendingly, but I passed that over...then I entered the doctor's room. Without even looking at me, he asked me if I was Italian, and sniggered when I said I was married to one. He then asked me what was wrong (still not looking at me), so I told him. He then turned to me and laughed sneeringly, saying "What makes you think that what you have could be malignant?" I was flabbergasted. I blabbered out: "Well, I don't know. It's just that it throbs...and I wondered if..." He sneered at me again, then quickly took the mole off. When I went back a week later (reluctantly), he did it again, didn't look at me, sneered at me when he told me there was nothing wrong... I went back to my GP and cried. I told him that if I ever had any problems again, please do not send me there. My GP was Sri Lankan, and he was appalled. He told me that the man had a reputation for rudeness to the elderly, but now that he knew he was racist too, he would make a few phone calls to doctor friends, and take the specialist off their referral list. He said that hitting the man in his hip pocket would be the best method of pulling him into line.

I never had a doctor laugh at one of my concerns; but, a priest once told me I didn't have enough sins to confess and to go and think of some more. I was 12 years old. I was mortified. I cried.

My GP has laughed a few times filling in my family history. For a while there my mum was being diagnosed with everything under the sun. I'd pop in for something minor like a broken wrist and he'd have to fill in more info. for my mum and dad than for me! He's also the one who whinged "I'm never going to make any money of you." and called my last physical "Boring." Personally I think that's just grand...

Yes, what an a-hole. I found a lump in my breast when I was 21 and the ob/gyn said I was to young to have breast cancer and it wasn't worth the cost of the tests. So I asked him which cost more, testing for breast cancer or the legal fees from a medical malpractice suit...long story short he did the test, I found a new doc, and I took half his patients with me.

I went to a Psychologist once because I was having a bout of depression. I told him my concerns with being overweight (which I have been most of my adult life), I told him the issues I had from my childhood with my parents and my weight, etc. I REALLY opened up to him and this guy laughs at me and says, "Oh you ladies and your weight! - My wife always complains that she thinks she is too big! Just eat less and excercise more". I was MORTIFIED that I had just poured my heart out to this jerk and he belittled my problem! Now, I was NOT 10 or 20 lbs overweight ... I was more like 50 or 60 lbs heavier than I should have been ... If I ever wanted to go out for some COMFORT food it was then! :(

No - maybe at the quick witted nervous jokes I throw out there at him/her

Never, I would report it to my mother!

yes. i went to a doctor summer of '97 for a discomfort i was experiencing in my thoracic cage.after examining me,he gave me some tablets to take for one month and suggested that i see him after one month.before leaving he cautioned me about some foods that i shouldn't eat or drink otherwise i may die. this is a part of the list of foods he cautioned me about with a big ubiquitous smile on his face.no beers,coffee,salt,sugar,curry,peppers,no yellow split peas,chick peas,cheese and the list kept going.right away i realised this MF was trying to kill me.however,after one month i went to see him.as i entered the clinic i told the receptionist that i am here to see dr.ra....her reply was he is not here.i said i have an appointment to see him today and i must see him.she then told me my doctor is dead. see the irony. the foods/drinks he cautioned me about eating,i still continue to eat/drink to this day and i've never had that discomfort since.

It wasn't a doctor but the triage nurse in the ER. she laughed and said my abdo pain was just gas. well, i didn't have gas, i had peritonitus! that a very serious infection and life threatening! Cow!