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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My pcp clearly cares about me to the extent that we create an alliance to address and improve my health. She is very invested in getting me from point a to point b healthwise and has addressed many things my prior PCPs have not. But she's concierge, so I'm paying her for that extra investment. At the end of the day what she cares deeply about is practicing medicine the way it should be practiced; not me in particular.

I think my psychiatrist cares about me a lot as a person because 1) I've been seeing him every month for many years, and 2) we just get along well. But if I were to move away next month or even say I wanted a knew psych, he'd be fine with it. Patients come, patients go.  He'd be really sad as we said goodbye, but then he'd move on to the next patient and that would be that.

Every other doctor I've had has been very interested in my medical issue (but not me personally) at best, and not interested even in my medical issue at worst.

Some of you are expecting too much of a relationship with a busy professional. [/quote]

This seems accurate for my longstanding relationships with my specialists. I do appreciate when they ask about my (young) kids as a starting point for the visit though. [/quote]

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