Do you sometimes meet doctors who you feel are patronizing toward you?

[Happyflowerlady]

I have been really fortunate with my cardiologist and my electrophysiologist (did the pacemaker), and both of them are very personable and treat their patients really well.
When I first saw my cardiologist, I didn’t have health insurance and was going to the community free clinic. My doctor volunteered there, so after a long day of seeing paying patients at the Heart Center, then he came to the free clinic and helped poor people who were there waiting to see a cardiologist.

They were not allowed to do more than a basic exam and medication, but he did put me on Coumadin , which I was able to get through the clinic.
When the Heart Center had a trial for Apixiban (Eliquis), I was able to be accepted into the trial, and he was also my doctor for that, and so I have been seeing this same doctor for around 10 years now.
I think that any doctor who would volunteer in the evenings after working a full day, is someone who really cares about his patients welfare.

 

[officerripley]

What's so frustrating about trying to find a medical professional that you're happy with is that more and more, around here anyway, it's hard to find any who are taking new patients.

During the 8-month wait I had to see a specialist, I heard from another doctor that there was an excellent specialist in that field in the next town over. So I called that other specialist's office and asked if they took new patients. She said unfortunately only if I lived in that town. She said they'd been getting swamped with calls of wannabe patients from my town. And my town has 5 times the population of that other town.