Another in a line of first world problems.
<— I had a doctor like this. Once. I don’t stay with bad doctors EVER. I walked out the door when the doctor said HE would be the one to decide if my husband was going to be in the labor room — not me. That was over 45 years ago.
Then there was the time a doctor said I was constipated, but I knew that wasn’t the problem. I had to find my own gastroenterologist.
Three months later, GI had a diagnosis: Gastroparesis. I wrote a scathing letter about him to the company he worked for, explaining that his “diagnosis” (to eat more fibrous foods) could have killed me.
They gave me a new doctor but didn’t fire the bastard.
My endocrinologist is excellent, but he’s having back surgery. He’ll be out of commission for a while. The message from his office manager said that people need to go to their PCP to get medications refilled.
This is bad news — for me. He’s the only doctor I’ve seen for the past 2 years — except for my retinal specialist.
I called my PCP’s office and was told she had left 2 years ago. Now, she’s working an hour away for a prestigious group of doctors. I refuse to drive an hour just to get a refill.
Of all the first world problems I believed would be easiest to solve, finding a new Primary Care Provider (aka PCP) isn’t it. Want to know what it’s like? Try finding the one marble in a junk pile 50 feet high (15.24 meters).
I live in a small town, where the doctors graduated from Jamaica or South America. I’ve been looking on-line and most of the doctors in my area have 1 star when it comes to
- Bedside manner, and
- knowledge.
Yes, they fall under this category:
Wish me luck.
Oh I do Joelle. Our previous GP prescribed tablets that could have killed Hubby if he’d taken them, and it was thanks to him that Hubby was referred for surgery almost 100 miles away for his reflux problems which could have been done 26 miles away. The op didn’t work, and two and a half years later, we are right back where we started. At least we have a better GP surgery now, but waiting lists are long and progress is slow.
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I have a great deal of sympathy for your husband. I had a botched surgeries before, and the surgery I had to get to correct it didn’t work, either. I hope he finds an excellent doctor.
You and I both know that doctor’s are only people with a little more education than most of us. It doesn’t mean they’re right, or they have any idea what is going on with our bodies.
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Amen to that! I have no patience with people who revere MDs as if they were somehow divine and/or infallible. I’ve been a victim of malpractice, as have several people close to me, so I’m always wary.
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I hope your search yields good results
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I definitely wish you all the luck in the universe I can relate feel exactly the same.x😻♥️🐈⬛🐾🐈
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Thanks.
I’m still procrastinating on going to a new doctor. It’s just so hard to choose between bad and worse. 🙂
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Good luck. I find it funny that they ask me for my PCP when I visit my eye doctor. Umm.. ‘I don’t have one’ raises eyebrows.
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It would be nice just to have a “family doctor” again that only sees you when you absolutely have to sgo to a doctor or die.
I have a very, very bad feeling about finding a PCP.
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I just find it weird how this doctor – patient relationship developed over the years.
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