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Originally Posted by gwscott
I have been on a waiting list at the VA clinic to see a PC since September. Is this normal here in the villages?
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I would think they lost your information. I was only on the waiting about six weeks. I went on the list late July and saw a doctor in September. I also went to the VA Hospital in Gainesville twice in October for a stress EKG and a cardiac cath and recently had my six month doctor visit two weeks ago.
On my orientation they said they had 12 doctors on board in TV and eventually would reach 16 doctors with each having about 1200 patients. My first doctor there almost killed me. I had a stent in 2007 plus I have diabetes II. He took me off all meds because my numbers were good. Three weeks later I had chest pains and they sent me to Gainesville for a stress EKG and a week later for a cardiac cath and possible second stent. It turned out my doctor should have never taken me off of Plavix and any of the my drugs, he had misinterperted the VA guidelines in reference to a stent. When I had my visit last week, the nurse told me that several patients had the same problem with that doctor and he is no longer there.