[GailA]

Must have good ins. Medicare/Tricare Life DICTATES what test/treatments and how often. Mammo’s are the 1 they want you to do yearly. Upper Endoscope was yearly, then went to 2 yrs, this year it went to 3 yrs. I watch everything I eat/drink no sodas, limit on coffee and black tea, mostly drink green tea. I don’t need Bezors to form and them starting to chop sections of my intestines out. 2 small meals a day and I do good to do that. Meats are the high intake, but can’t go to high or joint pain goes up.

I have a Cardio, Endo, Gastro, Neurologist, and Ophthalmologist who occasionally has to send me to the Cornea Specialist. Besides the Internist. Endo says Primary’s can’t read the reports correctly, he went to med school 4 extra years just for Endocrine system, where the Internist might get 1 course on it.

[pepsi_junkie]

I hope you are in a part of the country where you can access good care. I was fortunate in that I am 100 miles from Johns Hopkins so I could get really top notch care for my Barrett's and I continue to make that trek for my annual endocsopies. I'm all still working and my company had good insurance, but since Obamacare it gets worse every year.

Anyway a good doctor is worth their weight in gold, find one you trust and never let go BUT also do your research and question everything they say because nobody's perfect. A really good doctor will acknowledge their own deficiencies and listen. A bad one will ignore you and write a script without worrying about what's really going on.