Primary care who doesn’t see sick pts

[Anonymous]

Is it unreasonable to expect your primary care physician see you when you’re sick? I’m referring to sore throat, severe coughing, low grade fever, cold that lingers kind of symptoms. Mine says to test at home or go to urgent care. I’m considering firing her but don’t want to go to concierge or find myself in the same position again.

[Anonymous]

I've never had a primary who could see me when sick. I basically use our local urgent care as my go-to.

[Anonymous]

I use telehealth for this bc it’s so much easier.

[Anonymous]

At my practice they see you when you are sick. It’s not always my regular doctor but often times the NP.

[Anonymous]

Mine has the nurse call and say they will not see you and go to the er. Joy of military medicine. The you go elsewhere and they say why didn’t you come in. They will not test for anything even when a specialist asks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it unreasonable to expect your primary care physician see you when you’re sick? I’m referring to sore throat, severe coughing, low grade fever, cold that lingers kind of symptoms. Mine says to test at home or go to urgent care. I’m considering firing her but don’t want to go to concierge or find myself in the same position again.

That's hilariously ridiculous.

You don't need to see a doctor when you are well, and they won't see you when you are sick?

I wouldn't give a charlatan like that a single penny of business, just ridicule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my practice they see you when you are sick. It’s not always my regular doctor but often times the NP.

This. I can be seen at the practice but it's never my doctor that I see for physicals or non urgent issues. It's always a NP if it's a same day sick appt. It's irritating but better than Urgent Care, mostly because of the waiting. Urgent Care, even without much of a crowd, just seems to take forever.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, my doctor did sick visits w/in 24 hours, but just quit because of health reasons and now I’m finding out she was a unicorn.

[Anonymous]

Well, they don’t want you to come in with a virus because there’s nothing medically they can offer you and you’re just going to get other people sick. So it depends on the symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Why do you want to get others sick op? Use telahealth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you want to get others sick op? Use telahealth.

a) it's telehealth, not telahealth
b) how can you test for strep or flu with a telehealth visit?

[Anonymous]

Unreasonable, but I probably would just go to urgent care for this since my doctor would never be able to fit me in same day. My kids' ped would and I would fire them if they couldn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unreasonable, but I probably would just go to urgent care for this since my doctor would never be able to fit me in same day. My kids' ped would and I would fire them if they couldn't.

Have you tried to get into an urgent care? It’s challenging.

[Anonymous]

I never expect to see a PCP when sick with something like that. It’s how I wound up with One Medical. There always someone to see you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use telehealth for this bc it’s so much easier.

Do this when sniffling and coughing.