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Posted on 12/05/2025 7:14:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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The wait at my urgent care is unbearable. I was actually in the exam room after a long wait in the waiting room. After an interminable wait in the exam room, I walked out. I am not going to be treated that way. Medicine can KMA. I will never go back to my urgent care. It is a joke. The urgency in North Carolina is a joke. Inefficient and stupid care is not good medical care.
My dermatologist told me I was getting a melonama removed by a PA. The hell you say, said I and I went to an actual melanoma canter with an actual surgeon. The PAs I have encountered have not been good.
This particular PCP's office is not participating in my plan for '26, so I just designated a different doctor, who I'll most likely never see. My plan doesn't require referrals, so I usually just go directly to the specialist. A couple of weeks to get in, at most, here in suburban North Jersey.
We’re with a Senior Care agency for our Primary doctors...usually get in within 2-3 days for non-critical appointments.
If we need/want something faster - there’s a number of good “Critical Care” walk-in facilities nearby.
Then there’s the much hated Emergency Room if something bad happens without warning.
I would have done the same. My PCP and his assistants have always recommended the best to take care of a more serious problem like yours.
I can get an appointment in 2 hours at the most, if I yell help.
I'm so sorry to hear that. Do you think the "wide-open spaces" in Texas have something to do with it? It may be hard to have enough doctors want to settle in remote areas.
Here in the densely-populated northeast, I have not experienced any significant wait times. I've been wanting to move to a smaller town in the south for old age, but as I research the amenities, the time it will take to get to a doctor or hospital does seem more daunting in outlying towns.
The kind of medicine his father had practiced, as a country doctor, was obsolete when he started practicing medicine.
The kind of medicine I practiced when I finished medical school is now obsolete.
I am as annoyed as anyone at having to wade through so much time and red tape for an appointment with the doctor.
I do not like having to sit in the doctor's office for long periods. My time is as valuable as theirs.
Today, the doctor works from 8 to 5, or something like that. I worked 24 hours a day. If someone needed me at 3 a.m., I was available by telephone. Today, after the doctor goes home, anyone needing him gets a PA (physician's assistant) who is not a physician but often thinks he is and can be insufferable, and to call the doctor one must listen to an endless answering-machine menu starting with the annoying CYA advice: "If this is a true emergency, call 911 and go to the Emergency Room."
ON THE OTHER HAND:
Technological advances and other miraculous developments have revolutionized health care and human health!
Many of the horrible diseases I encountered in medical school and beyond--and of which I prayed endlessly for a cure--have been cured! Childhood leukemia, e.g., today is cured in most cases! I shall thank God forever for that one miracle alone!
I am now 86 years old and am in excellent health, with blood pressure, pulse, and weight the same as when I was 30. My wife is even healthier.
My son developed diabetes at age 8. I prayed that he would not be taken from me, as was one of my dearest childhood friends who had the same disease and died in his teens. My son is now 46 years old, is happily married, has beautiful children, my grandchildren. You think I don't give thanks constantly and endlessly for that???
I think about all this when I get angry about the annoying inconveniences--and worse--about 21st century medicine.
I will be eternally grateful to God for the miracles--and those yet to come.
All this is reason in itself to fight for the continued ascendancy of Western Civilization.
That wouldn't cover a trip on a Monopoly board. What gives?
What an inspiring post, Savage Beast! I’m so glad for the miracles you have witnessed.
Aside from the lying and financial scamming inflicted by the Feds, WHO, Gates, Fauci and the pharmaceutical industry around the covid pandemic, and wariness of the co-opted government-funded medical research cabals, I think most freepers join you in being grateful for the advances in medical care and most patient-facing physicians.
It’s just a Town perk and appts are within the town. The drivers are all volunteers...mostly retirees. Not part of the Town budget...
We called the clinic in the country only to be told they were not accepting patients. I finally put on a Brooks Brothers button-down with a camel hair sportcoat and walked into the clinic to inquire. We were assigned a doctor and meet with them on Tuesday.
Sweet! I've often thought this would be a worthwhile program for churches to take up.
The drivers are interesting...One was related to Lizzie Borden...the 40 whacker...boy did I have a story to tell my kids that day.
Medicaid or medicare?
IF clinics are even accepting patients.
Texas, established patient. Called for an appointment with my cardiologist last week. Soonest date is the middle of next July. 8 months. They put me on the waiting list if there is a cancellation since I can come on short notice.
Now most of the doctors are typing into their computers instead of listening to you. Lucky if you get a stethoscope on you. Talk to their back as they are leaving for next patient.
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