Dr. Alan Graff UNETHICAL MEDICAL PRACTICES Fort Lauderdale Florida

i have moved to a new Primary Doctor & have never experienced the outlined issues I expressed in my complaint. It would appear to me that you are an employee on staff based on your comments.  

I have used Dr. Graff for years, and he has never encouraged, or even suggested, I get involved in a different medical plan, nor has he done anything whatsoever that would lead me to suspect his ethics or competence.

I have my own urologist, cardiologist, proctologist, and a few other 'ologists.  He knows about some, and has never offered to do 'ologist work, and has never commented on my 'ologists.

I am smart enough to know that you don't use a GP to do a prostate exam – you use a urologist.  I would expect Dr. Graff to decline doing a prostate exam, a colonoscopy, a cardiology stress test, and anything else that is the province of a specialist.

As for refusing to let a person go to a specialist, that's absurd.  What is more likely is that the complaining person asked for a referral, and the doctor considered the patient's circumstances and declined to do so.  That's a doctor declining to humor a hypochondriac, or patient who believes he has a condition that symptoms don't support.  There are plenty of doctors who will humor such requests, and if your request is reasonable (under your circumstances), you'll easily find one to give you the referral.

Complaints that use broad generalities, like this one, do little to further truthful reports.  A useful complaint would list the symptoms a person has and the type of referral sought ... and let us readers come to our own conclusion.  If, for example, you're 72 and he's telling you to change from Acme Medical to MediCare, well that would certainly color my opinion of your complaint, and if you have MediCare and he's encouraging you to switch to Acme Medical, that also would affect my opinion of your complaint.  If you're in your 30's and had a prostate exam three months ago, I'd decline the referral if I were your PCP.  (By the way, I am not in a medical profession.)  This complaint does not allow the reader to draw conclusions.

If you're going to complain, give us readers the facts that support your complaint – not naked conclusions.  "He's a bad doctor" just doens't float.