Newest frustration...

Posted by Heather

How does one go about finding a doctor in a new community? Well - best we could tell - they ask for recommendations from people the meet (and assume they can trust). So we did that. Without much success. Then I got 1 name, suggested by 2 people.

So I called. And was told, rather rudely by the front desk person, that as a new patient I would have to wait 7-8 weeks just to get in to meet the doctor and that wouldn't even be for a real appointment. It would just be literally to MEET the doctor and then a follow-up appointment would have to be made for any type of examination or consultation. I inquired about what I should do in the interim if I had a pressing (but non-urgent) issue that I needed to see a doctor about (like getting a prescription rewritten that couldn't wait that long).

The answer? Go to Urgent Care. Or one of the mega-clinics in the area that a number of people had suggested that we avoid at all costs.

Great. So I did some additional research and found information on a lovely young doctor who just graduated from UW Med School. I thought I would try her. Wrong. She's in a group of physicians who only accepts patients discharged from the Moses Cone Hospital.

What now? I have no idea. God d*mn south.