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Colonoscopy fiasco and terrified now, ADVICE?

Digestive Health | Last Active: Aug 21, 2023 | Replies (8)
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@heyjoe415

I'm sorry for your loss and all you've been through. For what it's worth, the unfortunate events of your past won't go away unless you can find a way to let them go, and you will.

As for moving forward, start by finding a good PCP, ideally at a well known medical facility where you live. The PCP can then refer you to specialists.

All the best to you.

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user_ch783e933 | @user_ch783e933 | Aug 20, 2023

Seriously? I very much doubt losing my 23 year old daughter in a shockingly tragic way is something I can "let go".

Moving forward? PCP? I've been through four since my trusted PCP retired in 2015. I'm on number five now. It's the medical practice that ran the Covid response in my county and it's so overcrowded with patients that they brought my former PCP's partner out of retirement. He's up the mountain, literally, and there only two days a week (part time). I'm not happy but I can't switch to the main office because they're overloaded with patients. This is the best I can do around here. The teaching hospital an hour away? had that internist for about a year as a PCP, then I found out she didn't know who she was talking to when I called her because of a problem I was having, she thought I was someone who worked at the hospital. Really great health care, huh?

I don't need referral from a PCP. My insurance allows me to go to any doctor I choose.

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