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Well, it's official. Joe Mallozzi took photos of "two contest winners" and posted them on his blog (warning: there be mild spoilers here!) of yesterday. And neither is me. :( I think what he means is that one is the winner and the other is the friend who gets to come along. ( More whining with spoilers )
Well, it's official. Joe Mallozzi took photos of "two contest winners" and posted them on his blog (warning: there be mild spoilers here!) of yesterday. And neither is me. :( I think what he means is that one is the winner and the other is the friend who gets to come along. ( More whining with spoilers )
So . . . I'm still not feeling great. I think it's just a head cold. I think I have no symptoms of an infection. Every time I call because I'm actually sick, I don't see my doctor (who is great, so I'm not changing doctors' offices!); I see a Physician's Assistant (PA), almost always the same PA. She may be very good. But every single time I have gone to the doctor's office with a bug, I am diagnosed with an infection and given antibiotics. The only suspense is what the infection will be. Sometimes it's strep; once the strep test came back negative after she was sure it was strep, but she was convinced I had some infection, so she prescribed a different antibiotic. Sometimes I have "incipient bronchitis." And, pathetically, every time I've gone, I've been so desperate for relief I have happily accepted the scrip, or the samples, but with increasing suspicions. I know a couple have been real infections, but every time?
Now I have a quandary: if I call the office, I will see a PA, and I will get an antibiotic. My husband has been through the song and dance at the same office with a couple of PA's too. So deciding to call the doctor's office is almost tantamount to prescribing myself antibiotics (though I don't know which iin advance). This is bad. This is very bad. My husband once said he didn't want an antibiotic, so they sent him home with a scrip he didn't have to use. But if one doesn't use it, one wasted the trip to the office; our co-pay isn't bad, but it's not fun to sit around an office around other contagious people. If they give one samples and one doesn't use them, one has wasted the samples. Overuse of antibiotics causes resistance, and use of antibiotics isn't pleasant.
I don't think I have an infection, so I'm not calling. Am I alone in this? (Well, not exactly, because Brilliant Husband faces the same choices.) What's a patient to do?
Now I have a quandary: if I call the office, I will see a PA, and I will get an antibiotic. My husband has been through the song and dance at the same office with a couple of PA's too. So deciding to call the doctor's office is almost tantamount to prescribing myself antibiotics (though I don't know which iin advance). This is bad. This is very bad. My husband once said he didn't want an antibiotic, so they sent him home with a scrip he didn't have to use. But if one doesn't use it, one wasted the trip to the office; our co-pay isn't bad, but it's not fun to sit around an office around other contagious people. If they give one samples and one doesn't use them, one has wasted the samples. Overuse of antibiotics causes resistance, and use of antibiotics isn't pleasant.
I don't think I have an infection, so I'm not calling. Am I alone in this? (Well, not exactly, because Brilliant Husband faces the same choices.) What's a patient to do?
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So . . . I'm still not feeling great. I think it's just a head cold. I think I have no symptoms of an infection. Every time I call because I'm actually sick, I don't see my doctor (who is great, so I'm not changing doctors' offices!); I see a Physician's Assistant (PA), almost always the same PA. She may be very good. But every single time I have gone to the doctor's office with a bug, I am diagnosed with an infection and given antibiotics. The only suspense is what the infection will be. Sometimes it's strep; once the strep test came back negative after she was sure it was strep, but she was convinced I had some infection, so she prescribed a different antibiotic. Sometimes I have "incipient bronchitis." And, pathetically, every time I've gone, I've been so desperate for relief I have happily accepted the scrip, or the samples, but with increasing suspicions. I know a couple have been real infections, but every time?
Now I have a quandary: if I call the office, I will see a PA, and I will get an antibiotic. My husband has been through the song and dance at the same office with a couple of PA's too. So deciding to call the doctor's office is almost tantamount to prescribing myself antibiotics (though I don't know which iin advance). This is bad. This is very bad. My husband once said he didn't want an antibiotic, so they sent him home with a scrip he didn't have to use. But if one doesn't use it, one wasted the trip to the office; our co-pay isn't bad, but it's not fun to sit around an office around other contagious people. If they give one samples and one doesn't use them, one has wasted the samples. Overuse of antibiotics causes resistance, and use of antibiotics isn't pleasant.
I don't think I have an infection, so I'm not calling. Am I alone in this? (Well, not exactly, because Brilliant Husband faces the same choices.) What's a patient to do?
Now I have a quandary: if I call the office, I will see a PA, and I will get an antibiotic. My husband has been through the song and dance at the same office with a couple of PA's too. So deciding to call the doctor's office is almost tantamount to prescribing myself antibiotics (though I don't know which iin advance). This is bad. This is very bad. My husband once said he didn't want an antibiotic, so they sent him home with a scrip he didn't have to use. But if one doesn't use it, one wasted the trip to the office; our co-pay isn't bad, but it's not fun to sit around an office around other contagious people. If they give one samples and one doesn't use them, one has wasted the samples. Overuse of antibiotics causes resistance, and use of antibiotics isn't pleasant.
I don't think I have an infection, so I'm not calling. Am I alone in this? (Well, not exactly, because Brilliant Husband faces the same choices.) What's a patient to do?
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