We have to be proactive for ourselves, which is why we refused to take the clot shot even though we were sternly lectured by some of our own tribe. It's us elders against the world isn't it? This story is somewhat deeper and wider and, for me, exposes the next level of the iceberg that is the boat wrecker of modern healthcare. Hubs had t…
We have to be proactive for ourselves, which is why we refused to take the clot shot even though we were sternly lectured by some of our own tribe. It's us elders against the world isn't it? This story is somewhat deeper and wider and, for me, exposes the next level of the iceberg that is the boat wrecker of modern healthcare. Hubs had this problem 10 years ago and he was able to find a doc who treated him A to Z and that has held all this time. When he felt the first twinge in early June he knew what he needed to do but the doc who did the good job was long retired. A few weeks passed with him doing nothing so I took it on myself to search out ortho docs in our area. I found a practice in a new multi-story building five miles from our house. Hubs called and was told he would have to get an MRI first and the guardian of the door said they could give him a referral to a place in Atlanta - fifty miles away. Hubs opted to find someone else. He made an appointment with what turned out to be a pill pusher. His experience at that office was having to stand out in the hall for nearly two hours, bad back and all, because the booking agency made appointments ten minutes apart thus filling the waiting room to over capacity. For his trouble he did get a pain med script and referral for an MRI though...wait for it...guess where! To an office in the building where the first contacted ortho is, the one who was going to send him to Atlanta instead of downstairs.
Conclusion: it's just business and the business is about commerce not health and wellbeing. I do know there are old school docs who still practice good medicine and are not just drug reps for Big Pharma. I fear these are fewer and fewer though.
We have to be proactive for ourselves, which is why we refused to take the clot shot even though we were sternly lectured by some of our own tribe. It's us elders against the world isn't it? This story is somewhat deeper and wider and, for me, exposes the next level of the iceberg that is the boat wrecker of modern healthcare. Hubs had this problem 10 years ago and he was able to find a doc who treated him A to Z and that has held all this time. When he felt the first twinge in early June he knew what he needed to do but the doc who did the good job was long retired. A few weeks passed with him doing nothing so I took it on myself to search out ortho docs in our area. I found a practice in a new multi-story building five miles from our house. Hubs called and was told he would have to get an MRI first and the guardian of the door said they could give him a referral to a place in Atlanta - fifty miles away. Hubs opted to find someone else. He made an appointment with what turned out to be a pill pusher. His experience at that office was having to stand out in the hall for nearly two hours, bad back and all, because the booking agency made appointments ten minutes apart thus filling the waiting room to over capacity. For his trouble he did get a pain med script and referral for an MRI though...wait for it...guess where! To an office in the building where the first contacted ortho is, the one who was going to send him to Atlanta instead of downstairs.
Conclusion: it's just business and the business is about commerce not health and wellbeing. I do know there are old school docs who still practice good medicine and are not just drug reps for Big Pharma. I fear these are fewer and fewer though.