"Doctor care at the medical centre"

It never ceases to amaze me just how so many doctors seem to me to have very little social skills, in my opinion especially doctors who have come from overseas to work here in Australia because of the shortage of GPs.

There's always a bit of trepidation when I'm about to go into a consultation with such doctors when I haven't met them before. Some are really good but occasionally you get a really dreadful experience. The following is a review I posted on google about one such doctor from the Wodonga medical centre about a dreadful experience. 

It is a follows ... I'm a social health professional and can say with absolute clarity that I believe this doctor has poor listening skills. I think that if you want a solutions doctor, go see them. Based on my experience, if you want a listening doctor, avoid them. I'm not one of their patients, and the first thing they said was I'm seeing another patient in 3 minutes re let's make this quick. So I say I need medication because my Webster pack had run out (it was a public holiday. I had made the appointment online, and they were the only available doctor. We've only recently moved to Victoria, and we're still finding a place to live having moved twice while even here in transition. I already get my medication and Webster pack from a pharmacy that was closed so I just needed help until the following day.

They tell me to rattle off the details of the medication listed on my pack but throughout the whole the consultation repeats and I felt they lecturers me over and over again about how they can't take new patients and that I've put them in an awkward position because I don't have a designated doctor. I tell them we've only recently moved to Victoria (and moved twice since being here) and moving to Wagga very soon but they interrupt and talks over me and reiterates the same point over and over again that they can't take on new patients that I've put them in an awkward position. I counter by saying to the doctor that I've been to this medical centre before that I'm not a complete stranger they have me on file and again they interrupt me by saying the same thing again etc... and then finally I've had enough of the repetition and lecturing and ask them to stop repeating because they've already made their point 6 times and I got it the first time (having said very little during it all). It seemed to me that they can talk under water and gave me little chance to say anything.

Anyway, they give me the scripts and I get up to leave and apologise for putting them out of their way but say that they didn't have to do the consultation like that. I've seen doctors for decades and have my own neurologist and know how it all works. I stand to leave and shaking my head, and it seemed to me they realised I'm not dumb after all and smiles almost bowing their head apologetically and they then smile and says have a good day. I shake my head at them in frustrating disbelief and walk off to reception.

Ps I've seen the another doctor there (they're still recruiting) and I felt they weren't much better.