Called for Doc appt.
Figure about time for a check up, been many years. Thought I'd also ask about that aortic aneurysm check and maybe get my first calydascope exam.
Earliest appointment. Is mid January.
Told them may already be dead by then, may not have insurance then, and they seem to be doing good business they don't need mine.
Glad I got that all done.
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Seems to be the way of the world these days, and doesn’t look good for the future. Nobody wants to put in the work. Kids all just want to be social media “influencers” or computer geeks.
Military system is even worse. At the base I just moved from, you’d call for a primary care appointment and they’d tell you 120 day wait. If you needed a specialist, you might not get a referral and appointment for 8 months or longer. For dental, they pushed active duty exams to 21 month intervals, and cleanings even further. It’s disgusting, because soldiers and sailors have no options to go elsewhere, and appeals up the chain just get squashed. About the only way to get care in an timely manner was to go to the ER.
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Probably you are joking Joe, but if not, you could have made a better decision. If you have ignored your health for years, what is another 4 months?
Decent moderators are not that easy to come by, so do it as a favor to you fans and admirers here.
By the way, when will my I ❤️ Montanajoe sweatshirt ship? Winter is coming, it could get down to 40 here.
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Not joking
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Then, what he dog said.
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Thanks for the kind words.
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Figure about time for a check up, been many years. Thought I'd also ask about that aortic aneurysm check and maybe get my first calydascope exam.
Earliest appointment. Is mid January.
Told them may already be dead by then, may not have insurance then, and they seem to be doing good business they don't need mine.
Glad I got that all done.
I got mine sooner when I emailed the doc the following:
”Can I schedule my annual physical before you do my autopsy.”
I got an appt. within a month.
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Yes, what He Dog said.
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@...: https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/1916487/called-for-doc-appt
Figure about time for a check up, been many years. Thought I'd also ask about that aortic aneurysm check and maybe get my first calydascope exam.
Earliest appointment. Is mid January.
Told them may already be dead by then, may not have insurance then, and they seem to be doing good business they don't need mine.
Glad I got that all done.
I know what you're going thru. The American health care system is completely broken. When it literally takes months to see a doctor or a specialist, a person may indeed be pushing up daisies by the time the appointment rolls around.
Keep the appointment anyway, though. Just in case. 😊
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Recently had my annual physical, it is amazing to see how my doctor is almost shocked when she sees a 60 year old who has no prescribed meds, no medical issues, normal vitals, good cholesterol numbers.
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Sorry to hear that you have to wait so long Joe. My wife is still holding on and next month can't get here soon enough! She has had two appointments canceled with her regular DR….er nurse practitioner in a row, getting called on the days of those appointment with the nurse being sick!
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As men we take better care of our vehicles than we do of ourselves.
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Sorry to hear that you have to wait so long Joe. My wife is still holding on and next month can't get here soon enough! She has had two appointments canceled with her regular DR….er nurse practitioner in a row, getting called on the days of those appointment with the nurse being sick!
I know things happen, but this is ridiculous. This girls been waiting for treatment for a long time. They gotta get her in.
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Around this time last year my doctor sent a referral to the pain clinic down the street. Earliest they could get me in was two months. The last month the appointment was cancelled and rescheduled 4 different times, the last being two hours before the appointment, so I said piss on it, cancelled, and went on with life. A couple days or so later they had the audacity to call and ask why I cancelled. Define irony.
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I ran into the same thing, Joe. Scheduled a physical a month ago for the middle of January. Locally getting in for time sensitive things is no problem, but routine things are backed up.
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Wish you well Joe, you and Nunn have been around forever & really made this forum great.
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Not saying this is fact, but seems that the demise of my own doctors private practice began soon after January 22, 2009 with the advent of I can't say it care.
My doctor refuses to retire, but has been pushed out of business ( private practice) by the current system and now works for a large health care system and continues to service his existing patients.
He is allowed a set amount of minutes to spend with a given patient, and spends more time inputting data into his laptop ( probably so he gets paid ) than he does with me as a patient and he hates it.
Getting sick in this day and age is a grim affair, and every situation is different.
Talking to friends that are civil service, their healthcare seems to be a better setup.
Hang in there Montanajoe.
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…if theyre that backed up with all their patients having issues, must not be too good of a doc to begin with,,,
(green)
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some doctors refuse, or make it difficult for you to get an appt. With them if you are on Medicaid or Medicare
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The government is the reason healthcare doesn't work. Everything they touch turns into the Post Office.
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Wish you well Joe, you and Nunn have been around forever & really made this forum great.
Thank you.
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DON'T MAKE US COME OUT THERE JOE!
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You'd be welcomed
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some doctors refuse, or make it difficult for you to get an appt. With them if you are on Medicaid or Medicare
Or Tricare. A couple providers have flat told me they’d rather schedule even the Medicaid appointments over us.
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That's so wrong!!
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Several MD’s will pass on giving you an appointment if you are a patient who is not compliant with the orders they have given you to follow for your treatment.
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