Nurse Practitioners
Nurse practitioners have done a better job with me than doctors, on average. All my NP experiences have been positive and I can' t say the same for doctors. Last summer I asked a doctor to test me for Cronh's and he refused. Last month I told my ills to a NP, and she tested me - its positive. Now I can be treated and get to feeling better. The same was try for my chronic arthritis pain. NP allowed robaxin for those difficult days - this stops muscle spasms, which no doctor had ever explained were part of arthritis. I know it sounds silly but I thought the pain was mainly nerves and caused by inflammation inflammation. Nurse practitioners, on average, listen to me longer, and take my needs seriously.
It is really just a different model of how to treat those who are ill. Nurse practitioners have doctorates and there is a reason they can prescribe and diagnose in our strict system of medical qualifications - they are qualified.
I now need some cysts lanced and I am pretty grateful I can ask a NP to do this - doctors don't get very much practice at it but a NP will know if biopsy is needed in addition to lancing.
TV health does not have the specialists to take care of our needs -that is obvious. I have to wait two months for a colonoscopy and endoscopy even though my bloodwork is 95% indicative of Crohn's. (No treatment for the disease until the colonoscopy and endoscopy.)Pretty shabby. Anyone see any similarity at all, even in the slightest, to the VA scandal?
I think TV health tries not to hire MDs from outside the US. I think they mostly hire people who already know they want to retire in TV. The first doctor I had here was practicing and was an octogenarian. (Sadly, he had issues and I have to switch.) As anyone knows who has visited doctor's offices outside of large metropolitan areas, US physicians for the most part won't live in non-urban areas. You will be treated by a doctor from outside the US at least three-quarters of the time if not more. But my neighbor, a retired doctor, assures me that doctors from outside the US must pass all our medical tests.
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