Why do they lie about us?
I had a horrible appointment with a gastroenterologist a few weeks ago. He refused to listen to me throughout the appointment. He literally sat and read medical reports about me instead of talking to me. He refused to discuss my symptoms, he refused to believe that I'm losing weight because another doctor had weighed me a couple of weeks ago and my weight had only gone down by a few pounds, he was more interested in being patronising and spouting off long set-speeches than in actually addressing the issues that I'd been waiting a year to talk about... He was, in short, a complete waste of NHS funds.
And now I've read the letters he wrote about me to other medical professionals and he's lying about what happened.
He's pretending that I'm being unreasonable by refusing to accept his diagnosis. He's lying that we discussed my concerns in detail. He's pretending that I'm not losing weight. He's pretending that my observations are completely worthless. He's lying about the length of the appointment.
He is, in short, a spite-filled, malicious, incompetent bad joke of a doctor who has deliberately set out to make me look neurotic and difficult to other doctors because he loathes me to the point of trying to sabotage my health and relationships with other medical professionals simply because I had the nerve to ask him to do his job properly instead of taking expensive, lazy shortcuts that put me in danger as a patient.
What does he hope to gain by all this? Why does he want to be a doctor at all if he feels such overwhelming contempt and resentment towards half of his patients that he can't believe a single word they say and he can't bear to hear them speak? Does he think that his lies and mistakes and pompous bullshittery won't be found out?