In October I walked into my current Primary Care Facility, with an appointment to see my third doctor at the practice.  I was fully prepared that if I did not get a good vibe from this one to walk away and find a new doctor at a different practice.  Why my third doctor at the practice?  The other two that I was first seeing were residents, so when their residency was up they left and there was no notice, so each time I was forced to find a new one and once again explain why I was here.

When I walked into the practice almost two years ago, I didn’t think that it was going to drastically change the trajectory of my life.  I also wished that I knew what I know now and that is that I deserve a medical team that is going to work with me and not against me.

Each time I walked in to see a new doctor, prior to this current experience, I was the one explaining why I was here.  I am not a Medical Professional, that isn’t my job.  There is a reason there are charts.  They document all of my Medical History.  It’s why I stick with using doctors that are all affiliated with the same hospital, because they will have access to my charts.

If I am the one explaining then why am I here?  I might as well go home and google how to treat myself, right?  

Fast forward to sitting in a room, waiting for the new doctor, full intentions of walking away.  She walked in and she didn’t ask me why I was here.  She had taken the time to read my charts, from the practice and my other specialists.  She made me feel at ease and came up with a plan of moving forward. Do I have any more answers than I did when I walked in, no, but I wasn’t expecting them.  I really just wanted to have a doctor that was going to be with me on this journey, that wasn’t going to work against me and understood my need for needing answers, to why I at 40 have Chronic Kidney Disease.  

What I want you to know?  Is that if you have a Medical Professional that you don’t feel 100% comfortable with, walk away.  I wish I had the previous two times and maybe I would have found my new doctor sooner, but I am not going to dwell in the past.  For me it was a learning experience that such as in life, when it comes to working with Medical Professionals, I deserve better, we all do.