Trying to get a Doc appointment
satine100
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What I brought home from an appointment with my doctor
Comments (6)What I *didn't* get from the pharmacy here on Maui: The retail cost of the medication dispensed. DH takes two expensive meds. A single pill of one of them is $15 retail. The total retail cost determines when he falls into 'The Gap' on Part D Medicare -- usually about July. Then he pays more for his meds for the rest of the year. He never gets *beyond* the gap to catastrophic coverage. Both the retail and his OOP cost here on Maui were more than his SilverScript insurance had quoted an hour earlier. The OOP cost was 20% higher; the retail cost was 48% higher. Once we are home I will take this up with Medicare if it continues. Both the pharmacy here and at home are CRH. SilverScript and CRH are both Caremark....See MoreDHs doctor appointment update
Comments (18)Thank you all! I appreciate all of the thoughts and prayers. I'm sure DH feels better just having gone. Kinda stinks to get old...and you KNOW how old you're getting when the doctors are all so young! :-)...See MoreGee, I don't know, Doc. Why do YOU think?
Comments (16)This is a board certified, 'highly regarded' MD. He's in practice with his wife, also board certified. I don't know if their 'nurse' is a licensed nurse practitioner, but...she's HIS nurse and when she calls in a prescription she's giving HIS licence, evidently authorized BY HIM. If she didn't note the Metrogel on DH's chart, is that the patient's fault? If the MD didn't *read* the chart, is that the patient's fault? Exactly who, if not the MD, 'prescribed' the Metrogel? This is *sloppy*! If you call this office you can NEVER speak with or receive a call back from either MD. You have to first tell a receiptionist the whole problem, then -- if she feels like it -- she will pass you along to the nurse so you can tell it all over again. My late MIL, an RN and hospital administrator, always said that dermatology is the ideal practice: Your patients don't die (do to anything you do) and they don't get well; you have them *forever*. Well, not this patient in this case. We think the practice is so large -- and so lucrative -- that it is an assembly line. There's a nine month wait for another appointment should you need to cancel a semi-annual checkup -- even calling a month in advance to re-schedule. Jodi -- Thanks for the Kukui Nut Oil tip. I'm ready to try anything, once DH gets over this nasty reaction. I've seen that stuff all over when we are on Maui. Does your DH have to keep using it, or did the condition clear up and stay clear? My DH is also very fair-skinned, with light blue eyes. His birthmom was Irish and birthfather Northern Italian. Years ago a dermatologist who was seeing him for precancerous stuff said he had the palest shade of skin. (He has to see a dermatologist regularly for screening. Too many years on the tennis team in HS and earlier days outdoors at a summer camp on a lake.) Ordinarily I would have some blistering remark to relate to you: DH's reply to the MD. He'd spent time in the waiting room calming himself, reminding himself that getting angry wouldn't help him. He couldn't think of a reaonable reply to that stupid question -- only to say the doctor's office prescribed it; here's the (useless and worse) tube of Metrogel; now what?...See MorePediatrician to Adult Doc -- when to make the switch?
Comments (12)I really think by the time they're in their teens, the child has a right to have some input in the decision. Some would want to stay where theyr'e familiar, while others, I'm sure, would like to get away from the 'baby' dr.'s office. In dd's case, we had one pediatrician for the first 10 years of her life, then she had a medical problem he was unable (or unwilling) to diagnose for a couple of years (it was intermittant, and not life-threatening, so we didn't realize at first, that it was chronic, and would be on-going for many years). We took her to another ped. who diagnosed her in about 10 minutes (and also diagnosed me with the same condition--which I'd never been told before). He was right in both cases. She stayed with him for a few years, but by her mid teens, though, dd herself wanted to switch to our family dr. and it was a good fit for her. As to the person who said a ped. will see you same day, but a gp won't--that depends upon the dr. We have no problem ever getting a same day appt. with our family dr. if we're sick, and he's in. If he's not in, there's always a dr. covering who you can call. Of course, I'm sure most families know how their gp opperates, and would be able to anticipate if it were going to be a problem....See More
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