So, I was assigned a Dr. who just graduated from med school. Nice. I understand they have to learn and practice somewhere, but isn't it interesting that all prescriptions and billing my health insurance company is through their ""supervising"" doctor....who I never met by the way. I called about a question I had after seeing this Dr., and they said he was on rotation, he wouldn't be back for a month. Thereore one can assume you are going to be switched around to different residents. I also was told if I want a regular dr. I should go somewhere else....at least they are honest about it. One of my direct relatives died of colon cancer very young, so I wanted to know when I should get my next colonoscopy....they said 10 years. Gues what? Every single medical journal and the American Cancer Society says 5 year intervals if you had a direct relative with it. So, you can extrapolate what you want from that....If I was cynical I might guess it has something to do with cutting costs on referring ""expensive"" tests. I think it's wonderful from a business perspective, get very low paid rotating residents to do the care, (made sure you significantly overbook them so you can get every cent out of their time) have a ""supervising"" dr. sign off, bill the health insurance company for the higher paid ""supervising dr.'s"" time, and make lots of money. I guess emergency rooms in hospitals have been doing it forever, which is why going into cardiac arrest on Christmas day might not be the best idea, however when choosing a regular doctor on a more leisurely basis you might have a few more options.
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