Very recently, I was exposed to Dr Gilles Dansac's brutal reception as soon as he opened his door…read moreto me, with his shouting "No! No! No! You're fifteen minutes late !", though I was only coming to get the urgent letter he had formerly been asked by e-mail to write to a specialist in a great hospital of Paris.
I believe it might be useful to know that Dr Gilles Dansac can be somewhat moody and devote less attention to some of his patients than to others.
As far as I am concerned, I am 71 and have known Gilles Dansac since his childhood, living in the same neighbourhood, and have started consulting him 30 years ago, two or three times a year, mainly for mild problems and the renewal of prescriptions given by specialists (cardiologist, rheumatologist).
But in spite of my questions about a region on my forehead showing some swelling and itching for several months, he dismissed this as being just a mild irritation.
Finally a biopsy was prescribed by another doctor, and surgery turns out to be necessary.
It is in this context that I came to him for this letter demanded by the hospital administration.
I wonder if his irascible mood might have been aroused by guilty feelings for having neglected to provide sufficient attention to a patient, and by his embarassment to draft the letter ?
Moreso, a few hours after having refused to meet me and give me the letter, he wrote by e-mail to my daughter : "your mother might as well consult someone else".
I am shocked by the unheard of refusal of a medical practitioner to receive a mild old patient in need of assistance, and having made only one mistake : being 15 minutes late.
Naturally, I will not try to consult him again.
