Re:Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospit...
by tptacek on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @12:33PM
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Chicago. My actual GP schedules months out. An appointment with "any doctor in their practice" is within a week. An appointment at their affiliated urgent-care takes hours, usually less. The correct strategy is to get a GP affiliated with an urgent-care, schedule a checkup with the GP, and, meanwhile, just go to the urgent-care for everything; they'll send records over to your doctor if there's anything complicated.
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Re:Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospit...
by kasey_junk on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:37PM
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Chicago, I can make a televisit appointment to my primary care doctor typically with 1 day lead times. In person is typically 2 so he can schlep down to his office. He is a single practitioner with part time office and IT help. He recommends going to the minute clinic a block away from my house for most things that I can recognize and only calling him for a yearly consult which is a review of blood tests and a discussion about my health or for something the clinic didn’t figure out.
This seems like a completely reasonable approach and I’m always surprised that it’s not the default.