Who(m) can you trust?
I'm with a terrific multi-billion $ healthcare firm. Great doctors and staff.
My cardio guy is rushed. He stethoscopes me. Reads me my stress test and echo results , shakes my hand and leaves, saying he is looking for afib. He'll let me know.(7 days no contact). Didn't check my swollen feet.
The on line report says no bruit, no swelling.
My internist has been monitoring my bruit for a few years, including regular ultrasounds.
My gastroentorologist examined me, scheduled an endoscopy, and said, "Do you know your feet are swollen?" My gastro knows. I know, but my cardiologist doesn't because he never examined them!
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I feel you. I’m drowning in doctors and have no diagnosis for my condition. They don’t document my symptoms or communicate with each other.
Who(m) can I trust? ME
I always believed that people with healthcare insurance were in the best position, if you don’t like one doctor then you fire them and get another one, people have a doctor for every part of their body, it’s totally enviable. I am very sorry to hear that you are going through this, in my world, Canada, we get one family doctor who’s a “ jack of all trades and a master of none “, you rely solely on this person to check you out and if needed will forward you on to a specialist. If you’re financially secure you can also get health insurance which might open up more options but not everyone can afford insurance, our healthcare is out dated and needs so much improvement, currently they are getting more doctors to come to Canada and it’s happening since your last presidential election. As a Canadian citizen and a cancer patient I have been so stressed because my doctor has one foot out the door and keeps disappearing for several months, sometimes he leaves a colleague to look after his patients, I was told by a employee a while back that he lost so many patients since the pandemic, mostly seniors who died waiting for medical attention. In the past five years I’ve been in my doctors office twice only to remove my stitches from cancer surgery and the rest of the time I get a phone call appointment every couple of months to check in with him.
I realize that this is not what you want to hear but sometimes when things get really hard it can perhaps help a little when you hear about other people who have nothing, I wish you well and hope that you will get through this quickly.