Dr. Richard Hudson -- Switching Doctors
Hey all. I've been seeing Dr. Richard Hudson in Atlanta, GA for about two years now, but it seems like every visit/interaction with him and his office gets worse. It's a 4 hour drive for me to get to him (making it an 8 hour drive, total), so it's hard to manage. I actually went up there once for an appointment on a friday only to find out that he ( Read more... )
And yes, he can be condescending. He is a doctor. 99% of doctors are like that and I tend to do that myself to my sick family members (and no, I am not a doctor, but I understand where they are coming from as patients tend to think their problem is "just a fluke"). In my experience as someone who has been to a ton of doctors, specialists, surgeons, and have a ton of friends who are doctors, I have only met two in my entire life who never ever acted like that. My top surgeon never ever patronized me. My neurologist also never patronized or did anything of the sort. Everyone else has at some level.
Like most other doctors, if you prove to Dr. Hudson that you are competent and know what you are talking about, it’s amazing how fast he starts to actually listen to you and most of the attitude gets dropped. On the day he reupped my ADHD diagnosis, which I told him that I had been on Ritalin a long time ago for about a week so I wasn't surprised that I still had a severe case ADHD, he told me that based on my therapist's letter where she stated my education (2 bachelors and a masters), I was probably highly intelligent which is why I was able to go without drugs for so long. I still had a pretty severe case of ADHD though, but he didn't realise that I had good medical knowledge too which he learned later. He knows I can go without ADHD medication so he has never told me I would fail my classes if I didn't take the medication. He knows I have found ways to compensate for most things like every other ADHD person on the planet.
The one thing that drives me batshit is that Dr. Hudson wants me on IM injections. I don't want to be on the shots because I tend to have a seizure if I get injected with something. He at one point thought that I was wrong and that I might have been mistaken that I have a seizure disorder since most are absence seizures unless I am being injected. Nope. Trust me. I know what is going on. Hence why I see a neurologist. I wanted the patch or gel. He humoured me for the gel even though he has never successfully started a transition on gel. I can't take Androgel though as I had a nasty reaction. I am ok on Testim, which he keeps getting me coupons for so maybe he understands. I told him about compounded gel and the cost, now he is going out and trying to find out how to write a prescription for me so that I can go specifically on compounded Testim. I am happy about that because he seriously could be an asshole about this and say "Shots or no T at all", but he isn't.
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