Finding a doctor...

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I'm looking for a new primary doctor. It sucks.

I went on to my insurance's website and have a list of doctors that should take the insurance. I have called several and have got everything from "This is the billing department, we don't make appointments. No, we don't have that number" to "We don't take that insurance." I finally think I may have found one, but they won't schedule an appointment for almost two months and despite knowing I have insurance gave me the number for a free clinic!

I start back in school in a month and would like to get rid of this headache that I have had continuously for a couple years. It makes it difficult to focus, which could be bad in school.

I liked my previous doctor, but went to him mostly for convenience. Since moving I don't want to travel to wait three hours to see a doctor who hears "headache" and simply prescribes tylenol 3... which instead of finding why I have the headache simply fogs me up worse.

Any ideas other than simply continuing to call every number on the list?

[rkmsuf]

Dr. Beeper has been club champion three years running and I'm no slouch myself.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Oh what fun.

I asked a guy at work who said he knew a good doctor that is in our insurance network. Went and got the physical and all that, and he recommended a couple of specialists to go see. He thinks the headaches may be due to TMJ, but reading up on TMJ doesn't seem to fit...

I figured I'd go anyway, but neither doctor is in the network!

So now it's right back where I started from. :( I look up specialists on the Blue Cross website to call for an appointment, only to find out it's a wrong number or get some sort of other runaround.

I just want to feel right. It's like I constantly have pressure like I have on a cap that's too tight. Even on beautiful, sunny days with a fresh breeze I feel like I just want to close my eyes and lay down. There is no true enjoyment even in the little things like walking on a beach. I can't concentrate on anything. People talk and I find myself wondering what the hell they just said. I'm screwing up at work left and right... This sucks, and now I have school on top of it.

[terpkristin]

I'm with you, MGB! When I first moved to northern Virginia, I spent some time looking for a primary care doc and gave up. Between my insurance company's website which was more often than not wrong, no recommendations, and no real reason to see a regular GP, I ended up not worrying about it. Then I needed a doc for some reason, and went through the rigamarole again.

Finally found one, who turned out to be pretty awful. A FEMALE doctor in the practice referred to my ovaries as my "woman parts." Oh yes, I love it when my DOCTOR, who is the same gender I am, can't say parts of the female anatomy. :rolleyes:

Whatever I needed the doc for went away, though, so I didn't think about them again until I needed a pre-op physical before my latest surgery. The office had a nurse practitioner do it, who completely filled out the form incorrectly, wrote down things I'd said about my history incorrectly, and didn't seem to understand about a family of drugs I'm allergic to. I guess all that's OK, though, because at the end of the day, the office didn't send in the paperwork to the surgery center correctly (my name wasn't on any of it that I saw), so when I got to the surgery center they did my pre-op and I had my sugery.

What a nightmare. On that note, anybody in northern Virginia have a good GP? ;)

/tk

[lordscarlet]

What a nightmare. On that note, anybody in northern Virginia have a good GP? ;)

/tk

Yes, but in Arlington.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

A FEMALE doctor in the practice referred to my ovaries as my "woman parts."

"Woman Parts" LOL!

I had a FEMALE doctor a few docs ago who I got the distinct impression did not want me as her patient... (You'll understand this part) I went to her because I needed to get an emergency surgery that was ALREADY PERFORMED approved! So when she comes into the exam room she never even looked at me and asks why I am there to see her. I am sitting there obviously uncomfortable due to constant pain (on vicodin 750 every two hours,) I have a cast on my right wrist, a back brace and scrapes on my head, arms and legs. I told her I had surgery on my wrist and a compression fracture of L2. She writes it down and again asks what I am there for, all without taking her eyes off the chart. I got the distinct impression that if I told her they had amputated my left foot that she would have written that down without noticing I had a fully functional ambulatory device still attached to my leg!

I left her for a guy doctor when I got a urinary tract infection thanks to the painkillers. I just didn't feel comfortable with telling a FEMALE doctor "It burns when I don't pee!" (He was greek and had an accent so thick I couldn't understand anything he said.)

[Eaglesfan27]

Finally found one, who turned out to be pretty awful. A FEMALE doctor in the practice referred to my ovaries as my "woman parts." Oh yes, I love it when my DOCTOR, who is the same gender I am, can't say parts of the female anatomy. :rolleyes:

/tk

That is terrible. If a doctor can't be comfortable talking about anything, how is the patient supposed to open up to them.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

That is terrible. If a doctor can't be comfortable talking about anything, how is the patient supposed to open up to them.

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