Followup on doctor
I’m catching up. Over Christmas, first Betty got sick with a bad cold, then she gave it to me. Now, it’s the middle of January and I’m still catching up with everything that I didn’t do while making Xmas gifts and recovering from our colds.
We both like Betty’s new doctor. He has a practice where it’s just him and his wife operating from an office in their home. I told him about all the troubles I’ve had with doctors ignoring me; and problems finding out how to get an interpreter for Betty’s appointments; and the resolution, that Keystone 65 gave me a number to call to request the interpreter myself for any appointment. He was glad that Medicare/Keystone 65 pays for the interpreter and was honest– with the amount of debt he has he can’t pay for interpreters himself from the practice. And I believe him. Which is why I’m not putting his name on here.
He renewed all of Betty’s medication, and she’s back on the Lovastatin. We have an appointment for next week where he’ll take blood for the test to see if her cholesterol is going down (he takes it himself, doesn’t make us take a separate trip to a lab, how nice!). We’ll go from there. So far, things look good.
Sheila said,
February 7, 2008 at 6:30 pm
No updates, Nancy? Been almost a month since your last posting so either you are healthy or very busy? I need to update on my own medical situation, will do that later as it takes too long to put in here. However, I did ask the Patient Advocate at the medical center where almost all of my doctors are, if I could use email and he said no, then I said, what if exceptions could be made and I gave examples, like following up on or making appts, etc, plus I told him UK apparently uses texting for their appointments and reminders. He gave me the name of the higher up to contact about this so that is on my list of things to do. Sigh….. but at least I have a place to start.