Why Doctors Fire Their Patients
From ghosting to outright dismissal
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5 min readJun 11, 2019
A few years ago, Christina Thielst, a health care administrator based in Santa Barbara, California, called her primary care doctor for an appointment. She’d been experiencing some alarming symptoms — fatigue, numbness, pain in her limbs — and she wasn’t getting anywhere with the neurologist she’d been seeing, who advised only physical therapy and…
