Remember when yer Doc was all-in-one?

[Gracie]

I hafta go see a Womens Health doctor soon for ...well...never mind what for. Wimmens stuff. My doc doesn't do that. He just does the basics. Now, Doctors farm you out to all kinds of "specialists" instead of doing what docs used to do when I was a kid and in my teen years. Nowadays, docs just give flu shots, look in yer ears, take your blood pressure, order blood tests. Anything else? Gotta get a "referral" from his office to another office cuz the other office will not see you as walk in or even trying to make an appt. Nope. Gotta get a referral from your regular doctor.

So....this new Womens Health Care place send me a packet of papers to fill out before I go in, otherwise they will have to "renew the appointment for another day", and this packet was TEN FUCKING PAGES of stupid questions and each one had to be signed and dated and me printing my name on EACH ONE. I stuck a note in there after my hour of struggling to hold the fucking inkpen to answer their idiotic questions and signing my name and the note said "I use two ply white non scented toilet paper, too. Any more questions?" then signed my name again. Cost me almost 2 bucks to mail the damn thing back to them it was so thick and heavy.

I have to do this for ANY doctor I see OTHER than my regular physician. I have to go to the dermatologist as well, and yep....another packet is coming in the mail because I have seen him before but it has been 2 years. After 2 years, you are treated as a new patient. NOR can they just ask the regular doc to fax over whatever they need on my medical files. Nope. Too hard for them. Lets just make the old folks do it cuz they are too busy buffing and polishing their nails as they sit there answering phones or calling patients into the back room for their 15 minutes with Doc. Oh, and don't dare bring up more than ONE problem per appointment. Nope. Gotta make ANOTHER appt just to say "btw, I have this huge knot on my ass" or "I think I found a lump" cuz the reason you are there TODAY is to get refills of meds and your BP taken and your ear hurts. Got another pain? MAKE ANOTHER APPOINTMENT. That 15 minutes goes fast.

/end of rant. I miss the old days of docs being DOCS.

 

[TNHarley]

No, I don't. But my balls don't scrape the ground either..

 

[Gracie]

?

 

[TNHarley]

?

I was calling you old..

 

[Arianrhod]

My doctor does everything she's qualified to do (including sexual health) and only refers me to a specialist when there's something outside her area of expertise. Back in the magical Norman Rockwell 1950s that so many pine for, many conditions were overlooked because family physicians had neither the knowledge nor the equipment to treat for many, many conditions.

The idea that there's better and more extensive care available and that this is somehow a "bad" thing is mystifying.

 

[depotoo]

I remember when docs still made housecalls...

 

[irosie91]

I remember when my grandmother treated all childhood illnesses with coca cola syrup--------you want to try that remedy?----------simple advice----don't count on it

 

[Harry Dresden]

I hafta go see a Womens Health doctor soon for ...well...never mind what for. Wimmens stuff. My doc doesn't do that. He just does the basics. Now, Doctors farm you out to all kinds of "specialists" instead of doing what docs used to do when I was a kid and in my teen years. Nowadays, docs just give flu shots, look in yer ears, take your blood pressure, order blood tests. Anything else? Gotta get a "referral" from his office to another office cuz the other office will not see you as walk in or even trying to make an appt. Nope. Gotta get a referral from your regular doctor.

So....this new Womens Health Care place send me a packet of papers to fill out before I go in, otherwise they will have to "renew the appointment for another day", and this packet was TEN FUCKING PAGES of stupid questions and each one had to be signed and dated and me printing my name on EACH ONE. I stuck a note in there after my hour of struggling to hold the fucking inkpen to answer their idiotic questions and signing my name and the note said "I use two ply white non scented toilet paper, too. Any more questions?" then signed my name again. Cost me almost 2 bucks to mail the damn thing back to them it was so thick and heavy.

I have to do this for ANY doctor I see OTHER than my regular physician. I have to go to the dermatologist as well, and yep....another packet is coming in the mail because I have seen him before but it has been 2 years. After 2 years, you are treated as a new patient. NOR can they just ask the regular doc to fax over whatever they need on my medical files. Nope. Too hard for them. Lets just make the old folks do it cuz they are too busy buffing and polishing their nails as they sit there answering phones or calling patients into the back room for their 15 minutes with Doc. Oh, and don't dare bring up more than ONE problem per appointment. Nope. Gotta make ANOTHER appt just to say "btw, I have this huge knot on my ass" or "I think I found a lump" cuz the reason you are there TODAY is to get refills of meds and your BP taken and your ear hurts. Got another pain? MAKE ANOTHER APPOINTMENT. That 15 minutes goes fast.

/end of rant. I miss the old days of docs being DOCS.

get a health group that has computers......my primary is an Internist and handles quite a bit but when i have to go see a specialist i dont have to fill out nothing its all there in the network they use.....

 

[Gracie]

?

I was calling you old..

 

[Gracie]

I hafta go see a Womens Health doctor soon for ...well...never mind what for. Wimmens stuff. My doc doesn't do that. He just does the basics. Now, Doctors farm you out to all kinds of "specialists" instead of doing what docs used to do when I was a kid and in my teen years. Nowadays, docs just give flu shots, look in yer ears, take your blood pressure, order blood tests. Anything else? Gotta get a "referral" from his office to another office cuz the other office will not see you as walk in or even trying to make an appt. Nope. Gotta get a referral from your regular doctor.

So....this new Womens Health Care place send me a packet of papers to fill out before I go in, otherwise they will have to "renew the appointment for another day", and this packet was TEN FUCKING PAGES of stupid questions and each one had to be signed and dated and me printing my name on EACH ONE. I stuck a note in there after my hour of struggling to hold the fucking inkpen to answer their idiotic questions and signing my name and the note said "I use two ply white non scented toilet paper, too. Any more questions?" then signed my name again. Cost me almost 2 bucks to mail the damn thing back to them it was so thick and heavy.

I have to do this for ANY doctor I see OTHER than my regular physician. I have to go to the dermatologist as well, and yep....another packet is coming in the mail because I have seen him before but it has been 2 years. After 2 years, you are treated as a new patient. NOR can they just ask the regular doc to fax over whatever they need on my medical files. Nope. Too hard for them. Lets just make the old folks do it cuz they are too busy buffing and polishing their nails as they sit there answering phones or calling patients into the back room for their 15 minutes with Doc. Oh, and don't dare bring up more than ONE problem per appointment. Nope. Gotta make ANOTHER appt just to say "btw, I have this huge knot on my ass" or "I think I found a lump" cuz the reason you are there TODAY is to get refills of meds and your BP taken and your ear hurts. Got another pain? MAKE ANOTHER APPOINTMENT. That 15 minutes goes fast.

/end of rant. I miss the old days of docs being DOCS.

get a health group that has computers......my primary is an Internist and handles quite a bit but when i have to go see a specialist i dont have to fill out nothing its all there in the network they use.....

I don't have a choice of picking my own doc. However..I just talked to the derma office gal and we got to laughing so much but have it all figured out. Woman doc for wimmens probs on the 8th, derma doc on the 14th so the wimmens doc can tell him her findings. Derma doc office gal asked if I cared if he looked at the itchy bump under my one breast (they of course know of my mastectomy) and I said sure...I just don't want him looking at stuff below my waist) and we got to huffing and puffing again about stirrups and douching with perrier water and being all self conscience when a woman doctor knows the anguish we go thru being all embarrassed and shit....anyway...I had a good time on the phone a bit ago. So did the gal on the other end of the line and if she wasn't busy answering phones or polishing nails..we coulda swapped more jokes about it all.