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Uh oh, Manny got on the medical pass along wheel. You go to the pcp with a headache or stomachache and they pass you along to every specialist they know to cover their butts. Those of us with chronic illness know it well. Sometimes you’ve just gotta say halt.
I volunteer in a hospital. Well, my dog does, anyway. I like the hospital food there. It’s surprisingly good, considering, and the patients often mention that the food is better than other hospitals they have been to. They have excellent breakfasts and some very good chicken tenders, especially if they just came out of the oven. When I need a blood draw, I will go early enough to get my blood drawn and leave enough time to get breakfast before they switch to lunch foods. My dog comes along, and after we have breakfast, she gets a few hours of work in.
When we are younger, we see “our doctor” once a year or if needed for injury or illness. Then females need a gynecologist yearly. The ophthalmologist or other eye specialist crops up for a good portion of us, yearly. The dentist joins the group early, twice a year, plus appointments for any work needed. Then cardiologists, ENTs, allergists, orthopedic surgeons, vaccines, dermatologists yearly for people like me with, as my derm says, “very, very, extremely very sensitive skin,” podiatrists, oral surgeons, and other doctors. They mostly want us back yearly, at least, if we are willing to go. Then there are all the tests that become standard, way past the usual yearly blood test from “our doctor.” I guess we are lucky to live in a time when these appointments and tests are available and most of us have some level of medical insurance. I was born without any medical insurance and had to spend a month in the NICU because I was 6 weeks early, and my parents had to foot the entire bill. Most of the doctors I mentioned are rather routine by a certain age, but then we have plenty more specialists, and I am grateful they exist. I do, however, miss that “one doctor” visit yearly and then done.
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
They have good soft food there.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 1 year ago
Or he is a multi-task doctor or he is really in a bad shape.
Grace Premium Member over 1 year ago
Uh oh, Manny got on the medical pass along wheel. You go to the pcp with a headache or stomachache and they pass you along to every specialist they know to cover their butts. Those of us with chronic illness know it well. Sometimes you’ve just gotta say halt.
Jimmyk939 over 1 year ago
Don’t laugh, that could be you one day
sheashea over 1 year ago
Sounds like my life lately, and hubby. Pre-Covid we were healthy as could be. Not anymore, and neither of us have had Covid.
holdenrex over 1 year ago
His Ent guy? Is that Treebeard? Beechbone? Hopefully not Quickbeam, he’s much too hasty.
goboboyd over 1 year ago
The hospital’s cafe called, Comorbidity Corner. “When you have a lot to talk about.”
Moonkey Premium Member over 1 year ago
I volunteer in a hospital. Well, my dog does, anyway. I like the hospital food there. It’s surprisingly good, considering, and the patients often mention that the food is better than other hospitals they have been to. They have excellent breakfasts and some very good chicken tenders, especially if they just came out of the oven. When I need a blood draw, I will go early enough to get my blood drawn and leave enough time to get breakfast before they switch to lunch foods. My dog comes along, and after we have breakfast, she gets a few hours of work in.
Moonkey Premium Member over 1 year ago
When we are younger, we see “our doctor” once a year or if needed for injury or illness. Then females need a gynecologist yearly. The ophthalmologist or other eye specialist crops up for a good portion of us, yearly. The dentist joins the group early, twice a year, plus appointments for any work needed. Then cardiologists, ENTs, allergists, orthopedic surgeons, vaccines, dermatologists yearly for people like me with, as my derm says, “very, very, extremely very sensitive skin,” podiatrists, oral surgeons, and other doctors. They mostly want us back yearly, at least, if we are willing to go. Then there are all the tests that become standard, way past the usual yearly blood test from “our doctor.” I guess we are lucky to live in a time when these appointments and tests are available and most of us have some level of medical insurance. I was born without any medical insurance and had to spend a month in the NICU because I was 6 weeks early, and my parents had to foot the entire bill. Most of the doctors I mentioned are rather routine by a certain age, but then we have plenty more specialists, and I am grateful they exist. I do, however, miss that “one doctor” visit yearly and then done.