Since I'm now with Fallon Community Health, I needed to change all of my doctors (except my allergist). It took a while to get my new insurance card, so even though my insurance started on 6/1, Monday was the first day I could call to get an appointment. And I did. I just got back from my "new patient" visit.
Except that they'd booked it as a physical. :p So we talked about the fact that I'd had one in March. My new doctor was not so thrilled with me. I came in because I needed some Rxes moved to the new insurance/refilled, needed a referral for my allergy shots (to an outside provider), am due for follow up blood work since I've been on cholesterol meds for 3 months and the strange dry spot on my leg that doesn't seem to grow or go away.
Since I had the doctor's orders for the follow up blood work, she was happy to issue that anew. Ditto for the cholesterol meds. I'm to make an appointment for my allergy shots (don't need one) and then call someone at the office to get the referral. I'll call for the referral in the morning. The rest kind of has to wait.
This new doctor's office of mine didn't have the standard paperwork that I've come to expect when I go to a new doctor - the forms that you mark what you have, what meds you're on, what surgeries you've had, family history, etc. Thankfully, I brought my printout of that stuff and left it for her. Meantime though, she was kind of abrasive about the whole visit. When I told her that I was only using Advair 100/50 once a day, one puff, she seemed startled. But that's what I worked out with my allergist. Trust me, if I'm having trouble breathing, I'm the first one to know and the first one to adjust meds, followed by calling the doctor. Overmedicating is not my plan.
I'm really hoping that once I find a job that I can get BC/BS back and go back to my old doctors. I'm hoping this to the extent that when I call to get the records sent, I'm going to ask them not to cancel any appointments we already have booked.
Anyway, now to call to get my records copied/faxed.
