I've been using Residents in a Medical School for a GP for several years now.  I get excellent care, because they are anxious to learn and because they have an attending physician that they touch base with at each appointment.  With my medical issues, and with my wife's MS and other issues we joke that our purpose in life is to teach Dr's medicine.  We usually get a Dr for 1-2 1/2 yrs, depending on where they are in the rotation.  Yesterday was my last appointment with Dr Kos, and I'm really going to miss her.  She has learned a lot about CH and MS, plus Guillain-Barre, which I'm fighting now.  Linda and I both told her thank you so much at the appointment, and I told her she will make an excellent Dr, because she really cares about her patients and has compassion.  I told her she does not have the God complex, which she has seen and knows.  It was a bittersweet meeting. 

Just to top things off, in the fifteen minutes between when she finished the exam and was out of the room discussing things with the attending, I got hit with a K8.  I quickly downed a 5hr Energy and was down to about a K4 when she came back into the room with the attending, who was wanting to check up on my progress with the GBS.  She has seen me with a CH once before, but it reinforced the severity again, even at a K4 level.  I told her to keep my contact info, and that she has the freedom to refer any of her patients to me without asking because she knows I've been around this game for a long time now, and that I have the resources, (this place) to bring people to for help.

I also found out the nurse who did my vitals is a clusterhead.  She has only had one cycle, and when she said "I had that once" I was about to kick her out the door.  What she was saying though is that she had a cycle once, and is on meds for it.  I really don't think she is on the right stuff, but as she is not currently in cycle I didn't get into that, but gave her my info and told her to check out this page, and to give me a call when it comes back.

I have been known to be a bit critical of the medical establishment at times.  I don't think undeservedly, but there are some good Docs out there who do care about their patients, AND are willing to listen and learn.  To bad it seems they are the young ones, and not so much the "specialists" who think they have learned it all.

Just wanted to share.

Jerry

There are some good ones out there, my friend. Sadly, we only learn that through trial and error. I am fortunate to have a few good ones right now, and am even more fortunate not to need them very often.

I'm as guilty as anyone when it comes to generalizations about the medical community. :-/ There's some damned fine ones out there and I've been lucky enough to have had a few myself. Keep the education going Jerry!

Joe

It is truly a blessing when you find a doc who has compassion, passion, truly caring and understanding and who wants to learn. Sadly there aren't enough of them out there and even more sadly it will become some clusterheads first experience with a doctor. So sorry that she is leaving Jerry as i too have one of the "Good ones" and don't want to imagine starting over....Best of luck with having another good doc/student to take her place...