I've seen both the docs...because I can never see the same one twice, lol. They are virtually impossible to get an appointment with. Last week, when I was running out of medicine (and had resorted to rationing again...while waiting for them to get around to following up on the labs from the previous week), I went ahead and called for an appointment with any doc so I could at least renew my prescription. The doc I saw was really confused as to why I was in his office, but he was nice enough to do as I asked anyhow.
During my previous appointment the doc only prescribed enough for two weeks. She was suppose to call me the following week and let me know how my labs were and (in theory) place a renewed prescription. These Docs are just too busy getting slammed to tend to follow ups. And I've learned that the only way to ensure you're followed up on is to be sitting in front of their face, and remind them to look at your results. All this makes for a rather unpleasant doc/ patient relationship. I'm sure they're just as sick of me as I am of them. I don't fault them, it's just how bad it's become.
Anyhow, it's not lost on me that, at least here, we're short on Primary Care Docs. Do you really have to ask me how I know this?
Paperwork, the demands of the chronically sick and the need to bring work
home are among the factors pushing young doctors away from careers in
primary care, the survey found.- By CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press
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In steps Nurse Practitioners...at least to a certain point NP's can run test, conduct patient teaching, and prescribe a small list of standard medications. Maybe I'll go back to school when the kids are grown.
Perhaps when I'm rich, lol...I can set up a trust fund to award scholarships to med students who promise to go into primary care...someday ah! However, NP's are cheaper to train and you don't have to pay them nearly as much as someone with M.D. at the end of his/her name.
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