Does anyone know what is a normal patient load for a pain management doctor? My doctor informed me on Friday that he has 2,000 patients who have "emergencies", and are dying or have infections. This was in response to my request for information about the revision surgery that I must have due to crossed SCS leads. He was actually yelling at me and suggested that I remove the device so that he no longer has to treat me. Note that I informed him that there was something wrong at the beginning of January and did not get an x-ray until February. It took another week for him to get back to me with the x-ray results even though he required me to go to his facility so that he could look at the results "immediately".

Is anyone else having these problems? I am discouraged.