... eight years. In the next eight, I had two PA and got a new physician. And got the newest six months ago.

They've all been women, and I feel they they were about their business and took/take very good care of me.

It's not easy to do. I use the same chain of clinics in my metro area, and have since I moved here. That's the first step. Then, I stick with the doctor I chose, after seeing a couple of others. Turne out he started working my clinic about the same time I started going. I liked him the first time I saw him, so requested him as my primary care doctor. Years later, he told me that i was the first patient to do that.

Then, when it came time to choose a Medicare Advantage plan, I chose one that is based on my chain of clinics. These days, both I and that doctor have moved, but I continue to see him, even it it means driving across the metro. It really helps that he knows me and has seen me multiple times over the years. And I know him and his way of practicing medicine. He's an internist, which is a good basic choice as a primary care doctor. I stay with him, because he lets me, even though he doesn't take on new primary care patients.

If it's possible to develop a relationship with a doctor you like, it's definitely worth doing. But, it's not always easy.

... Joy has United Health Care through CIA, and it is the best private insurance I've ever seen. Up front, she is privileged because of her CIA connection. I know UHC has a bad reputation for delaying and denying treatments.

Being on VA, it makes the knot that Medicare was never meant to become, irrelevant for me.





Off topic: I was disappointed with all the monkeyshine aspersion aimed at you this week. Sometimes you are obviously the only adult in the room.

Everyone gets to have his or her say here.

... who engaged in it.