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If would if she didn’t give me all of the copies of the bloodwork, etc. I keep up with my arteries by having them scanned on my own without her telling me to or filing with insurance. I see the scans. I do it because I have high cholesterol and can’t take statins. She’s trying me on something called Nexletol right now but at the first sign of trouble she always takes me off of any meds that cause any issues. Since I see my scans, I know that one artery is completely clean and the other showed a small amount of buildup that is too minor to remove. It has been exactly at that stage for 10 years. When I have the scan, they also check for Afib, PAD, abdominal aneurysms, and osteoporosis. I do it through LifeLine Screening. She knows I do this on my own dime, and I keep up with my health. When we go over the bloodwork she orders, she has it up on the screen where I can see it and she gives me a copy. She’s very open about it all and makes sure I see what she sees. She has never tried to treat me like I was too stupid to understand the charts and paperwork.

She also knows she can’t pull a fast one on me because I have a college certificate in nutrition and health. LOL

I have the inherited form of high LDL. My triglycerides are always good, and my HDL stays in the 60’s.

sorry kiddo...I should have kept reading... all the back and forth you had on the responses.

So, I will leave you be and find some other place to stick my other foot in my mouth.

Before I do go (and honest I will go) my Dr. retired and I decided to give the V.A. another chance. I was pleasantly surprised at the change of everything about the VA.
They hire Loyola Medical medical people as staff.

With that said...they were a PITA about me getting the flu and pneumonia and shingles shot.
I refused the flu as I have done for years. They still kept hammering me on the other 2.
I did the research and felt these were reasonable safe immunizations and decided to get them. There was a vaccine developed later for pneumonia and i go that also.

to make a long story short (I know... it's too late for that). They never hammered me about COVID shots...they asked and I declined and that was it. That seemed real strange to me. And I decided not to ask why...