http://www.thecheckoutline.org/blog/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-switch-doctors/ Advice for Dying and Death - When Sympathy Isnt Enough Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:43:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/blog/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-switch-doctors/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Nathan Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:53:08 +0000 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/wordpress/blog/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-switch-doctors/#comment-97 Perhaps you should write a column about how and why doctors sometimes drop patients. I retired after 40 years -- and one day I just may write a book about patients and their families. It isn't always pretty. There is more than one side to this. Just because someone pays our fees (usually an insurance company) doesn't we're now the property of the patient. Perhaps you should write a column about how and why doctors sometimes drop patients. I retired after 40 years — and one day I just may write a book about patients and their families. It isn’t always pretty. There is more than one side to this. Just because someone pays our fees (usually an insurance company) doesn’t we’re now the property of the patient.

]]> http://www.thecheckoutline.org/blog/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-switch-doctors/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Kerri Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:50:10 +0000 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/wordpress/blog/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-switch-doctors/#comment-100 Whenever I went to the doctor with my dad, who was terminal, the doctor would smile and inform me that I was just wasting my time. That my father is a responsible, intelligent human being and that he -- the doc -- would take excellent care of him, and essentially I should just butt out. After he repeated this not -so-subtle message during the course of three or four visits, I realized he preferred not to be bothered by a prying pesky relative. Dad agreed, and we switched doctors. Good decision! Whenever I went to the doctor with my dad, who was terminal, the doctor would smile and inform me that I was just wasting my time. That my father is a responsible, intelligent human being and that he — the doc — would take excellent care of him, and essentially I should just butt out. After he repeated this not -so-subtle message during the course of three or four visits, I realized he preferred not to be bothered by a prying pesky relative. Dad agreed, and we switched doctors. Good decision!

]]> http://www.thecheckoutline.org/blog/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-switch-doctors/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Kyle Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:20:35 +0000 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/wordpress/blog/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-switch-doctors/#comment-99 2 other indicators: when the doctor says 'trust me on this one', and when he says 'this is too complicated to explain to a lay person'. 2 other indicators: when the doctor says ‘trust me on this one’, and when he says ‘this is too complicated to explain to a lay person’.

]]> http://www.thecheckoutline.org/blog/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-switch-doctors/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Peter Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:18:44 +0000 http://www.thecheckoutline.org/wordpress/blog/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-switch-doctors/#comment-98 Do you know the difference between a doctor and God? God doesn't think he is a doctor.... Do you know the difference between a doctor and God? God doesn’t think he is a doctor….

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