@parus, I'm so glad to see you on here, but sorry you are having difficulties. I'm happy to say that I got a great primary at Mayo. She started as a resident, then last year, when she finished her residency, she was hired by Mayo so I got lucky! But I agree with you. It's difficult to find a good fit. I can't remember... are you at Mayo or somewhere else?

@parus I am about to be searching once again for a new PCP. I hate this. All of the good ones up here are not taking new patients. Now that the doctors are all owned by the hospitals it's a whole different world too, more like a business and they have 9 - 5 jobs with no OT since if patients are in the hospital they are cared for by hospitalists, and if they get sick beyond office hours they go to urgent care.

I was told the last time I had to find a new PCP to stick with a doctor of internal medicine, they are better at diagnosing generally, and are better for older patients. Family practice doctors are just that -- good for young parents and their children.

@jakedduck1 I'm sorry to hear about your license. If your seizures are under control then I hope you can get it back. I lived in fear of losing my license when I had cirrhosis with HE episodes. A person with an HE episode should not be driving and in some states that's an immediate cause to lose your license. I never lost mine, I am not sure if it's not a law here or in MA or if it was because my HE episodes had symptoms that let me know I was about to have one so if I was out I would immediately head home. Sometimes I would not get one at all, but sometimes an hour or two later I would. In between episodes I was perfectly cognizant, which is not true for many people who have HE.
JK