When I saw the doctor the other day, I was settling in to chat with him about all my ailments but he rushed me out the door, saying, “I’ll send you a letter”. A bit abrupt, I thought but I imagine Medicare allows for a consultation to take only 12 minutes, allowing another 3 minutes to scribble down some notes before the next hypochondriac is at the door.
To my surprise the letter arrived yesterday. I read it carefully, then again. After the usual pleasantries, it got down to business.
‘I think, for someone in their 80th year,” (Thanks for the reminder!)
“you are doing well, but ..” (there’s always a but, isn’t there?)
“there are four things I thought we would be worth dwelling on.”
And he went on to enumerate and describe what these four things were. I must say I was very impressed. He had clearly gone back through my file because he mentioned specialists I had seen in the 2000’s and procedures even I had forgotten.
He mentioned another specialist I should see and he had made an appointment for that to happen, and he signed it ‘Tim’.
This is the first doctor I’ve encountered who has been so
pro-active about my health. I think I
might be on to a good thing here. Unfortunately, I'm told he's on the verge of retiring.
No comments:
Post a Comment