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Originally Posted by Vinny
My feeling is that despite their trappings and marketing material, your experience will be based on which doctor you get just like every place else. BTW my doctor prescribed a medication that he had tried with no success just 6 months earlier. So much for taking the time to check my records before prescribing. I also found out that they will take you from their lounge at your appointment time only to sit in an empty room for 15 minutes while watching your doctor do data input at a computer. Plus he never looks at me when he talks because he is busy inputting everything I say into a computer and yet he prescribed a drug he already tried. They really are no better than other medical centers I have used both here and back home. It all depends on which doctor you choose.
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The health care system is overloaded .. and I think that is true anywhere in North America. And with an aging population, doctors will probably be seeing more patients and there will be more confusion with medical records.
As we age, we tend to forget stuff. If you're not already doing it, I think it would be wise for us all to start keeping a record of everything that relates to our health. Not just medications, (prescription and non prescription), but I think we should all keep a record of every single medical and dental appointment we have, copies of all blood tests, referrals to specialists and results, the date of your last mammogram or pap or colonscopy, bone density scans, allergy shots, flu shots, shingle vacine, etc. You can't depend on the medical system to keep track of things for you, they may slip up.
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Originally Posted by ilovetv
And concerning his not eloquently greeting the receptionists.....it's not the Love Boat, and he's not the Captain.
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