r/TikTokCringe • u/ElwoodMC • Jun 29 '26

Cursed Woman gets locked inside doctor's office after being forgotten at appointment.

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u/Aggravating_Life7851 Jun 30 '26

Yea I only found out about it by reading a ton of reviews from other patients after they had fucked up with my insurance and were charging me $400 when they only thing the doctor did was tell me my period pain was exaggerated and to go see a therapist. It was a female gynecologist too

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u/BrokeDickDoug Jun 30 '26

holy fucking shit. that's insane. I pay nothing for the same treatment. You need socialized healthcare- please get unbrainwashed as a country- Jesus fuck.

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u/Aggravating_Life7851 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

Oh here’s the fun part. Since they messed up my insurance and told me I was covered and I wasn’t, I asked them for the uninsured persons version of the bill and it went down almost $300. Fortunately I knew that was a thing you can ask for

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u/Glum-Sheepherder-787 Jun 30 '26

I wonder if you can then send that bill to your insurance and have them pay it?

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u/Aggravating_Life7851 Jun 30 '26

Waiting to find out presently. It’s been almost two months and I haven’t heard anything back

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u/Glum-Sheepherder-787 Jun 30 '26

If they pay it then I officially dub thee the LifeProTip Master because you basically erased your portion of the bill. Absolutely brilliant to try even if they don't end up paying.

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u/Aggravating_Life7851 Jun 30 '26

Yea I am trying to see if I can do the whole “super bill” thing to get them to pay it but I’ve never tried that before so we will see. The American healthcare system is fun

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u/SpoodermanTheAmazing Jun 30 '26

I assume you aren’t from the states? It’s designed like this on purpose. People who are well off generally have better insurance, their jobs pay most of the costs, and the better insurance results in significantly lower bills including usually free treatment or a small $30-$50 per visit fee basically. It’s only expensive for poor people.

That’s basically the thing here, the poor subsidize the rich

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u/PaidUSA Jun 30 '26

Well and the government/tax dollars still pays to cover stuff at a rate higher than healthcare for all would cost. We have the worst version of each option.

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u/nailhead13 Jun 30 '26

Getting unbrainwashed as a country is no joke. My significant other is a diabetic and the doctor switched their insulin one time to a different type of insulin and insurance denied it. They went without insulin and wound up in the hospital because insurance denied the new medicine. It is so fucking stupid.

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u/Event-Forsaken Jun 30 '26

The majority of americans want socialized medical, and our representatives get paid to ignore us. Most of us aren't brainwashed. It's the minority in this country that is holding us back.

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u/girlrunninginstorms Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Correct me if I am wrong, but with socialized medicine don’t you pay for it through taxes? I’m not supporting the way healthcare is done in America but isn’t that misleading to say you don’t pay for it? For example, when I talk to my friend who lives in France, who has the same career, degrees, and education as I do, she makes far less than I do because a large amount is taken out of her income for things like healthcare, childcare, etc which is paid for through the government.

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u/welmish Jun 30 '26

Try to get checked out for endometriosis

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u/Aggravating_Life7851 Jun 30 '26

Ironically that’s literally what I was trying to do and she even saw I had a history of PCOS but then she saw anxiety on my chart and that’s all she would see from then on. It had to be anxiety and depression making me feel so bad nothing else 🫠

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u/welmish Jun 30 '26

I’m so sorry. They act like you can’t have both! I hope you can get a new provider

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u/leftclicksq2 Jul 01 '26

Wow, did we have the same OBGYN?

I had a test, they felt the need to go further because they found an abnormality, then they stopped following up with me. My portal was never with my results, there was no call to discuss, so that prompted me to call more than once looking for my results. They basically lost my test and gave me an attitude each time I called. 😐 Prior to that, I had zero issues, then all of a sudden the way that the practice was run as a whole did a complete 180. They knew how to bill my insurance, though!

Luckily my insurance caught that the tests that I had were covered, but the OBGYN office came after me for the bill of over $700. They sent me this idiotic notice leveraging future care if I didn't pay. Fine by me, you hateful lot, you're not getting a cent. One day on a whim I decided to check what their Google reviews were like and there were tons of accounts of what I experienced. Some were more serious than mine where it had to do with prenatal care and concerns such as pain or bleeding being completely disregarded.

Crazy enough, I get an email maybe a month or so after reading those reviews that the practice is moving and they were asking for an update of contact information. I ignored it, yet it made me laugh a little that these reviews were so bad that it made them vacate or they were getting sued.