Bailey, Timothy S, MD

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My oncologist, who is seeing me for Melanoma cancer sent me to Dr. Bailey and we had a televisit mid-December. I have two spots on my thyroid that was of concern and Dr. Bailey said it was probably nothing but said to have a biopsy on the larger one. I called the office and the first open appt was mid March....What? That is three months out - what if it is cancer continuing to spread as I wait...sorry, they said, that is the first open appt. I have no faith in our health care system ;(.

My visit was terrible. I saw the Temecula office. I was scheduled for an appointment to treat type 1 diabetes. I've had it almost 20 years. I have recently had some severe family issues and I was seeking help with disease management (social work, lifestyle management, etc) what sort of facility that works with people with chronic conditions have absolutely no suggestions or resources for the condition they specialize in? I'm shocked. The suggestion was to tape my insulin pump to my body and the doctor (who isn't my doctor by the way) yelled at me for not being impressed with the suggestion. On top of that, this doctor had to be right. The doctor is not right, I already stated what the problem was but I guess the only solution is to push some medicine I don't need. So anyway I showed up for an appointment with a doctor who isn't there anymore, I get this narcissistic dr who decides that I don't know what N does... (I have had diabetes for 20 years and my suggestions are I don't know what n does and tape my insulin pump. Oh I was also told to contact the local ADA to get into a diabetes support group... ) I spent the time describing a need for lifestyle support, scheduling, etc and my suggestion is to contact ADA (who when I called said they were not the ones to contact) I called some of ADA's suggestions and still there was nothing to assist people with chronic conditions to help them manage their lifelong condition. So finally I decided to experiment. I have a family, they have a ton of mental health, developmental, physical disabilities and chronic conditions. I look into social work and bipolar management (I have siblings, cousins, and aunts with the condition) sure enough the social worker therapists that work with them also work with patients who have chronic medical illnesses. The program helps the patients care for themselves and manage conditions when they have extremely busy schedules. Ding! Ding! Ding! This is exactly what I was looking for because people who have chronic conditions (among other things) get mentally and physically exhausted especially when other things go wrong such as I dunno a massive bi polar sibling episode because she now has Lyme disease or your other sister having brain surgery because she had this incredibly rare condition let's call it "less than 500 people in the world have this stupid diagnosis that sucks syndrome" which literally destroys the brain and now the sibling is paralyzed or maybe the patient has I dunno a neck injury so painful that she can't sleep at all.



My point is that did I see a doctor or not? How can someone who works in the field have absolutely no suggestions or resources for the management of the condition? Oh and not to mention, the English was so terrible that I had to repeat myself dozens of times and I have worked with people from all over the world, this was a definite language barrier to a point I suggest an interpreter be in the room. Oh and how about the charming doctor educating me (which wasn't needed) in the uses of N.... Are we in the 90's I am aware of what N does. And this doctor wonders why I got upset. I don't need to see a doctor weekly when the obvious issue is time and condition management. This visit was a waste of time and just a massive insult. It seems they don't have any idea how to help people with chronic conditions they just want to not help and make an extra buck.



But obviously the problem is my fault. I have become (mentally and physically) by a condition that is my fault which is why I was treated like garbage. Except the thing is I was ten and I didn't make the decision to not get a flu shot. So don't treat anyone you're supposed to help like everything is their fault. What, you're perfect or something?