Yep. During the earliest days of his symptoms of Alzheimers, when he was still fairly self-functional, my father refused to take a medicine that his doctor prescribed, and the doc gave him a choice of either being compliant with his meds Rx or finding another physician to treat him.Texas_Blaze wrote:...Anybody ever been told to go away by their physician? Ive never had this happen before. Just weird.
I had known and worked with the doc for almost 10 years while he was an ER doc and the medical control for an EMS agency I worked with, and knew that he wouldn't do something like that without good reason. Dad never said a word to me, but after my mother spilled the beans, I went with him to his next appointment. Dad complied, but wasn't happy about it. He hated the aftertaste more than any reactions - something about the taste of the med stayed with him for quite a while afterwards.
Nowadays, I'd think that unless you have a long-term and exceptional relationship with your physician, you're likely to find the "my way or the highway" attitude comes about from their liability if they knowingly let you be uncompliant with your meds - that's malpractice.