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I am about ready to look for another doctor, and it’s not because my current PCP isn’t a good doctor. It’s because his medical group was acquired by a HC “system” run by our local hospital, and now a bunch of bean counters have taken charge of the practice. Now his appointments are scheduled throughout the day at 20 minute intervals. His “nurse” (that would be Nurse Ratchet) does all the vitals crap, then he show up, shakes my hand and immediately sits down at the computer terminal and logs in. My “appointment” consists of ten minutes with me, and the other ten putting down stuff in my healthcare dossier, a place where shit shows up, but never leaves. If I came in for a hangnail ten years ago, it’s still there! The final straw was when I wrote to him on the system that’s provided, to tell him the results I’d seen with a change in my BP medication. I probably wrote six or eight sentences to adequately describe what had happened. A note that came back via “Nurse Ratchet” was that I had gone over the 140 characters the system allowed (which was BS because the form says that you can use up to 5,000 characters), and that he wanted her to admonish me not to violate the “communication rules” again. I did write back telling them that I had not violated the rules and that maybe he had his medical practice confused with his Twitter account. They run their office like a bunch of cats covering $hit now, and I’m about done with all of it. The only problem will be trying to find a doctor who is “taking patients.” Oh and that 20 minute appointment is at least $220. It is indeed “socialized medicine” being sold as personal healthcare.

Same thing here in Maine.

My local hospital here in Ellsworth, Maine, independent since 1956, merged with Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine, a massive facility, two years ago.

Since then, it’s been a disaster on many levels. Some doctors are unhappy and have quit, others went into private practice, the nurses are fed up with the bean counters and are unhappy, and on it goes.

Yesterday, my sister tried to find a doctor at the local Family practice that I use, which is owned by the hospital. The woman at the counter was sympathetic, but she told my sister that the doctors in the practice are not seeing new patients. Sigh.

One needs a medical malpractice attorney on retainer as these fools don’t even know who we are much less why we’re there to be treated for something they’re clueless about. They don’t know anything about the drugs they’re peddling for Big Pharma including the side effects that we have to endure. Huge FYI for everyone reading this post, ask your pharmacist “where your prescription medications come from.” If it’s CHINA, don’t pick it up!! Buyer and “guinea pig” beware.

The Trump Administration needs to get our prescription medications out of China and India and the other third-world hell holes. Bring it back to the US.