Apparently, Kaiser has this great catch all that when a doctor is out you see whom ever happens to see you. I completely understand this if a doctor is going on vacation for a couple of weeks or is out sick for themselves or a family member. But if they are going to be gone for any extended period of time I would think that there would be some better type of program. I have had other medical insurance before and they have always set it up where patience A through whatever would see Doctor A and so forth. Doesn't this makes sense. Okay it does to me.
Well anyways. Since my primary doctor has been out on maternity leave for 3 months and I have been on and off sick for this past 3 months I have seen 12 different doctors. You read that right 12 different doctors. So I have to go through explaining to them exactly what I have had and what they think is wrong with me and then they have to explain that when my general doctor gets back she will have to run all sorts of test to make sure that what they are doing for me is correct. This is kind of scary to me. I don't know. I am just a bit concerned.
I mean I know when I am not feeling well. I know when I can feel wheezing going on in my chest something is not quite right. I know when I have a fever that there is something going on. I know when I have a deep cough and I am coughing up green stuff from my chest and my nasal congestion is clear that there is something going on. I am almost 36 years old. I can figure stuff out and I also have a school nurse who can listen to my chest and say, "something isn't right here you need to be seen by a doctor today." Yet when I call at 3:20 in the afternoon and then don't get a call back and I have to call back again 3 times only to be told the final time I call at 7:00pm that they have no time to see me until the next day, I know something is wrong with Kaiser's system.
OKAY RANT OFF
Sorry guys and gals. I am just a bit frustrated.
0 comments:
Post a Comment