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I am trying something. I will explain later and it will all make sense. I really didnt think anyone would post too much on it, I REALLY didnt...I thought I would get a lot of PMs, but not posts. I SWEAR it will ALL make sense later...I just needed to post that to see if my hypothesis is correct.

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okay So Im finally going to say what has happened...Dr. Spiegel's office staff got on here and found where I had given him a bad recommendation and printed it off. Made me drive allllll the way to Port Neches from Jasper (a long way) when gas prices were nearly 4 dollars a gallon and pay $100 in cash for a fill...then made my friend and I sit in the waiting room for forever and a day...then when I got back there he basically fired me as a patient...he refunded me my fill money, but not the gas money. I saw the date that the article was printed, way before that day, and therefore they should have called me to tell me that he no longer wanted to see me as a patient instead of making me drive that long of way. Anyways, Im soon to have a new doctor as soon as Dr. Spiegel's office actually decides to give this new doctor my information...I hope its soon, Im having really bad complications with my band...its my own fault, but still I need to see this new doctor and make sure that everything is okay. Dr. Spiegel had the audacity to call me unprofessional...newsflash, I can be as lewd and crude as I want, because Im not a professional anything but student....what he did was unprofessional and immature and I DO NOT recommend him to anyone!! Not for just this reason, but for others as well...

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Wow, you are having complications and you admit its you fault, you post a bad recomendation on a public forum potientally costing him several paitents a year and he has the audacity to call you on it HOW DARE HE.:laugh:

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he did it illegally is the point. Texas Medical Board says he has to give me advance notice, not make me waste gas. I hope it costed him several patients because he has so many that he cant take care of them all, and maybe had I had a doctor that CARED what was going on and could tell me from other patients then PERHAPS I wouldnt have been so bad off to possibly have screwed up my band. Its still my fault, I made the decision...however, he should have observed my psychosis first and realized that I was acting in manic and depressed behavior.

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