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  • lightflyer1

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    I have had my PCP for 27 years. The only issue is he is 10 years older than me (61). At some point he will disappear and I will be stuck with someone new, soon.
     

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    At some point he will disappear and I will be stuck with someone new, soon.
    That thought gives me the willies but not for me. My sister really needs her doctors and needs them to be plugged into her entire history. Her life depends on it. Her primary is minimally good but all her specialists are old enough to begin retiring. I cannot imagine replacing her cardiologist.
     

    toddnjoyce

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    On the long-time Doc avenue, I’ve got a buddy in CO that has a mystery neurological disease. It presents like MS, but it definitely is NOT MS and has been dealing with very experienced, very specialized doctors for about 18 months now trying to diagnose it.

    His recommendation to everyone is that if people should be talking to their doctors about succession planning for the doc. Nobody plans on getting hit by a bus, but doctors are just as susceptible as anyone else.

    Every one of his new specialists have said If I can’t see you, here’s who to go see, and in some cases it can mean traveling more than just across town.
     

    just country

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    morning, its all about money. ur money.
    when the body gets old it sucks.
    passing is hard, living is more difficult.
    justme gbot tum
     

    deemus

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    I have had my PCP for 27 years. The only issue is he is 10 years older than me (61). At some point he will disappear and I will be stuck with someone new, soon.

    Our original primary care doc retired when Obamacare hit. She was less than 60, but saw the huge reductions in payouts to docs.

    The current doc was a bit younger and elected to stay. I actually like her better than the old one. Shes a little younger than me.
     

    oldag

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    Nice having a doc about my age who knows the things that I am simply not going to change, and does not fight or fuss about it.
     

    benenglish

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    I once read a great piece of advice that said you should get a doctor a little older than you so they will have had personal experience with your problems. They'll be able to relate to you. For young people, that's great advice.

    For people my age, we really don't need to seek medical care from corpses.
     

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    I once read a great piece of advice that said you should get a doctor a little older than you so they will have had personal experience with your problems. They'll be able to relate to you. For young people, that's great advice.

    For people my age, we really don't need to seek medical care from corpses.
    I remember the first time I had real back pain after a hard day of landscape work. Then I knew what the patients had been talking about.
     

    TX OMFS

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    On the long-time Doc avenue, I’ve got a buddy in CO that has a mystery neurological disease. It presents like MS, but it definitely is NOT MS and has been dealing with very experienced, very specialized doctors for about 18 months now trying to diagnose it.

    His recommendation to everyone is that if people should be talking to their doctors about succession planning for the doc. Nobody plans on getting hit by a bus, but doctors are just as susceptible as anyone else.

    Every one of his new specialists have said If I can’t see you, here’s who to go see, and in some cases it can mean traveling more than just across town.
    Great advise.

    I have a hard time getting people to travel from San Antonio to New Braunfels to see a doc up there I recommend. I tell people that's the place I would go & have sent friends & family but they refuse to drive 25 or 30 miles.
     

    lightflyer1

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    I once read a great piece of advice that said you should get a doctor a little older than you so they will have had personal experience with your problems. They'll be able to relate to you. For young people, that's great advice.

    For people my age, we really don't need to seek medical care from corpses.

    When you are young that makes sense. When you get older the opposite is true. Find a good one ten or 20 years younger, so they don't retire or die on you and are more in touch with newer methods and procedures. I am already asking my doctor when he will retire and who to use next. Hopefully someone still in his practice and 20 years or so younger than me.
     

    TheMailMan

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    I remember the first time I had real back pain after a hard day of landscape work. Then I knew what the patients had been talking about.

    That's not real back pain.

    Real back pain is a muscle spasm out of the blue that makes you black out. When you feel like your body is balanced on the tip of a needle and any movement that takes you off the tip of that needle causes you to cry.

    I've been dealing with the chronic pain in my lower back for over 40 years. Now I fear I have problems in my T spine.
     

    oldag

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    That's not real back pain.

    Real back pain is a muscle spasm out of the blue that makes you black out. When you feel like your body is balanced on the tip of a needle and any movement that takes you off the tip of that needle causes you to cry.

    I've been dealing with the chronic pain in my lower back for over 40 years. Now I fear I have problems in my T spine.
    I am grateful to the Lord that I have not had those kind of back spasms for some years now. Those suckers will grab you with no warning and just knock the breath out of you.
     

    lightflyer1

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    I know what those are like. I have had 2 surgeries that fused the first three vertebrae and my tailbone together. Since the second I have had those kinds of spasms. Nearly ten years now. Last March the doctor put 4 screws into my left side that fixed the joint between my pelvic bone and tailbone on that side. Never had another one of those since. My prayers were answered! I have tried acupuncture, pain medication, nerve ablation and the doctor had suggested implanting one of those white noise devices on my spinal cord, which I declined. Finally my surgeon suggested this procedure and it seems to have worked wonders so far. They used to think this joint had little to do with lower back pain but now believe it may account for as much as 80%.

    SI joint fusion
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    30 minute surgery and up and walking two hours after, pain free.

    https://www.odtmag.com/contents/vie...int-screw-system-for-sacroiliac-joint-fusion/

    My back.

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    My doctor over 30 years and 3 surgeries.
    https://www.spine-ctsi.com/relieve-sacroiliac-joint-pain-with-steroid-injections/

    RANDALL F. DRYER, M.D.
     

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