Thanks for this and will pass it on. At the end of my most recent cardiology check-up the specialist announced there was good news on my need for a heart transplant. Love good news and had anyone ever mentioned being a transplant candidate at any of my other encounters with the system I might have understood being treated like such a clueless patient.
Having had six individual “primary care” physicians just this year at “my clinic”, messages to me go into the rotating wheel of doctors that are almost always in that tiny slot between arriving and leaving and are never to reach my ears. Add to this the system NEED to send messages using the correct protocol forbids me from not entering the name of SOME doctor on the form. So for now I’ve picked my favorite doc who will be back from maternity leave over my second favorite who has recently moved on. Guessing there will be less than a year’s gap.
Whoever invented the primary physician as guarantor of continuity must have never lived anywhere rural where doctors are sent until something better comes up. They might also consider the clinic as recipient for messages to their listed doctors. My experience tells me messages on my condition go from the specialist to the garbage if my doc isn’t there.
Thanks for this and will pass it on. At the end of my most recent cardiology check-up the specialist announced there was good news on my need for a heart transplant. Love good news and had anyone ever mentioned being a transplant candidate at any of my other encounters with the system I might have understood being treated like such a clueless patient.
Having had six individual “primary care” physicians just this year at “my clinic”, messages to me go into the rotating wheel of doctors that are almost always in that tiny slot between arriving and leaving and are never to reach my ears. Add to this the system NEED to send messages using the correct protocol forbids me from not entering the name of SOME doctor on the form. So for now I’ve picked my favorite doc who will be back from maternity leave over my second favorite who has recently moved on. Guessing there will be less than a year’s gap.
Whoever invented the primary physician as guarantor of continuity must have never lived anywhere rural where doctors are sent until something better comes up. They might also consider the clinic as recipient for messages to their listed doctors. My experience tells me messages on my condition go from the specialist to the garbage if my doc isn’t there.