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Alabama Doctor on Treating Dying and Unvaccinated COVID Patients

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“I try to be very non-judgmental when I’m getting a new COVID patient that’s unvaccinated, but I really just started asking them, ‘Why haven’t you gotten the vaccine?’ And I’ll just ask it point blank, in the least judgmental way possible,” she said. “And most of them, they’re very honest, they give me answers. ‘I talked to this person, I saw this thing on Facebook, I got this email, I saw this on the news,’ you know, these are all the reasons that I didn’t get vaccinated.

“And the one question that I always ask them is, did you make an appointment with your primary care doctor and ask them for their opinion on whether or not you should receive the vaccine? And so far, nobody has answered yes to that question.”
 
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"... make an appointment with your primary care doctor and ask them for their opinion ..."

For just about anyone with insurance who has a primary care doctor, it almost always take too long to get an appointment "just to talk" and might cost out of pocket money. For just about anyone who does not have insurance, there is usually not primary care doctor to speak of.

Just like all enterprises out there, the doctors' offices these days also prefer you do everything through their website or automated phone answering system rather than let you talk to a live human. I get the sense that they generally do not want you to talk to a live person and they staff their phone lines accordingly. None of this is conducive to get people to even call their offices to talk unless there is an urgent need.

Reviewing my old emails, I found a few mass-mailings from the hospital system (to which my primary care doctor belongs) about COVID-19 vaccinations, none really personalized in anyway to indicate that they came from my primary care physician. That hospital system also email me lots of other things -- the COVID-19 vaccine emails just do not stand out from these other junk mails.

So, to the Alabama Doctor cited in that article, I suppose I can also ask if/how she has reached out to her patients to advise them about taking the vaccine. Shrug


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Very sad and totally predictable.


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In 10 days, I won’t have a primary care doctor. His practice is going concierge, and I won’t pay $100 plus a month given that I only need him about once a year.

I tried to find a new one, but it was time consuming and there aren’t any providers in the vicinity.

I guess I’ll be getting care through urgent care . . .
 
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When I called the third time as requested to tell the front desk at the doc's that the email to set up the evisit never came the receptionist screamed that the system does not work.
Since then I have not been able to get past her. She hangs up on me.
I ended up a another physician's office with an NP that seemed determined to start me on medication for whatever she could come up with. That was after a testicle exam by a student nurse who was kneeling in front of me that went on for so long that the NP stopped her.
I never want to be in a doc's office again.


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I have been lucky. My docs use "My Chart," and I've been very successful in sending emails for routine questions and getting answers in 48 hours or less. I do think the days of expecting a return phone call are fast receding.

My email responses in My Chart are probably 75% from the nurse practitioner, who's discussed it with the doc, and maybe 25% from the doc themselves. I don't really care who responds, I'm just happy to get an answer.
 
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Originally posted by Nina:
I have been lucky. My docs use "My Chart," and I've been very successful in sending emails for routine questions and getting answers in 48 hours or less. I do think the days of expecting a return phone call are fast receding.

My email responses in My Chart are probably 75% from the nurse practitioner, who's discussed it with the doc, and maybe 25% from the doc themselves. I don't really care who responds, I'm just happy to get an answer.


I use mychart, too. My doc is part of the Providence group and I can get a telehealth consult with a nurse 24 hrs a day.


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My doc is part of the Providence group and I can get a telehealth consult with a nurse 24 hrs a day.
Me too. I didn't know Providence was so large.


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I know a person who got COVID and their Dr. dropped them. Some Drs. will treat it and some won't. My compassion for people who can get the vaccination and won't has run dry.
 
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Originally posted by Axtremus:
"... make an appointment with your primary care doctor and ask them for their opinion ..."

For just about anyone with insurance who has a primary care doctor, it almost always take too long to get an appointment "just to talk" and might cost out of pocket money.


It costs out of pocket money, but my primary care doctor will do virtual visits, and it almost never takes me more than a few days to get an appointment.

Specialists are a different story.
 
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Originally posted by Nina:
I have been lucky. My docs use "My Chart," and I've been very successful in sending emails for routine questions and getting answers in 48 hours or less. I do think the days of expecting a return phone call are fast receding.

My email responses in My Chart are probably 75% from the nurse practitioner, who's discussed it with the doc, and maybe 25% from the doc themselves. I don't really care who responds, I'm just happy to get an answer.


I use mychart, too. My doc is part of the Providence group and I can get a telehealth consult with a nurse 24 hrs a day.


Provid3ence is huge in the west. I did a pathology conversion for them a few years back.

I love MyChart. I get great response time too.


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Originally posted by Axtremus:
"... make an appointment with your primary care doctor and ask them for their opinion ..."

For just about anyone with insurance who has a primary care doctor, it almost always take too long to get an appointment "just to talk" and might cost out of pocket money. For just about anyone who does not have insurance, there is usually not primary care doctor to speak of.

Just like all enterprises out there, the doctors' offices these days also prefer you do everything through their website or automated phone answering system rather than let you talk to a live human. I get the sense that they generally do not want you to talk to a live person and they staff their phone lines accordingly. None of this is conducive to get people to even call their offices to talk unless there is an urgent need.

Reviewing my old emails, I found a few mass-mailings from the hospital system (to which my primary care doctor belongs) about COVID-19 vaccinations, none really personalized in anyway to indicate that they came from my primary care physician. That hospital system also email me lots of other things -- the COVID-19 vaccine emails just do not stand out from these other junk mails.

So, to the Alabama Doctor cited in that article, I suppose I can also ask if/how she has reached out to her patients to advise them about taking the vaccine. Shrug


Mine is available by email and I get a response next day if not same day


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