Adulting and the US healthcare system
Oct. 1st, 2023 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
just_cydThere's a lot of things I've not been properly prepared for, and navigating my own health care has been one of them.
I got lucky that when I moved back to Ohio in 1996, I was able to return to my family practice I'd been using when I moved away in 1993. Not having to re-invent the wheel with my medical history was nice, as uncomplicated as it was then. When things started getting interesting, this doc was able to refer me to the necessary specialists (and when that first one was a raging asshole, they found me another one).
What I was NOT prepared for, however, was reaching the point of being older than my doc. At least, with Dr M., his baby face gave the perception of him being much younger, when he's actually a year or two older. He still has the baby face, but a few grey hairs at the temples is helping him gain clout with his elderly patients. I see him on Tuesday, and I'm taking the whole day off for it. pupil dilation sucks.
Another thing I was never prepared for? My family doc retired. she's not that much older than me, but enough older, I suppose, to retire. or, as my mom did, "choose not to work"?
So while I'm badly dealing with the shit insurance I have, on Friday I'll see the PA (or NP?) in that same practice, and hope like hell we can keep things as-is with all the drugs I'm on.
Why can't something be easy??
I got lucky that when I moved back to Ohio in 1996, I was able to return to my family practice I'd been using when I moved away in 1993. Not having to re-invent the wheel with my medical history was nice, as uncomplicated as it was then. When things started getting interesting, this doc was able to refer me to the necessary specialists (and when that first one was a raging asshole, they found me another one).
What I was NOT prepared for, however, was reaching the point of being older than my doc. At least, with Dr M., his baby face gave the perception of him being much younger, when he's actually a year or two older. He still has the baby face, but a few grey hairs at the temples is helping him gain clout with his elderly patients. I see him on Tuesday, and I'm taking the whole day off for it. pupil dilation sucks.
Another thing I was never prepared for? My family doc retired. she's not that much older than me, but enough older, I suppose, to retire. or, as my mom did, "choose not to work"?
So while I'm badly dealing with the shit insurance I have, on Friday I'll see the PA (or NP?) in that same practice, and hope like hell we can keep things as-is with all the drugs I'm on.
Why can't something be easy??
