The biggest fear I have is going to the hospital for treatment and having to sit in a room and wait with people who are infected.I think because we are really not many people at all, where I live, they must be able to take the precautions, but my sis and parents are in Florida and she said they do the temperature thingy and ask the questions and ask you to wear a mask, but they do go in and wait in the lobby and do not have to wait in their car....The new normal thanks to Democrats and our media.Ok, so I was suppose to get my annual Wellness visit... it's free on my insurance and yours too,, so why not get it every year? The labs and other tests required for a person of my age, are free as well.... no copays and no out of pocket expenses or deductibles since the ACA was passed....all insurance has to cover those things... like I need a colonoscopy every couple of years because my dad had colon cancer when he was about my age.... he beat it, but they still watch him for polyps every few months and have found new ones that he has removed early in the forming of them.... so my colonoscopy is considered a necessity and part of my yearly wellness exam, and a mammogram every couple of years as well.... all included.... which I did not even realize they were covered until a few years ago......
Ok, so going back to my visit with my Doc and all of the Corona Virus precautions taken by the Health Center she has her practice at....
I arrive on time and approach the glass doors to the entrance to the building... it is locked...there is a girl in there on a folding chair with a lap top on a folding table, another table with disposable masks and hand sanitizer machine right above it..... Still locked out, she comes outside, asks my name and which Doctor I am there to see, and what time was my appointment,
all of this outside of the glass doors, me wearing a mask and she wearing a mask.....took my temperature, asked if I was out of state or out of country recently,
Then she asks me to point out my car, and sends me back there to wait...
and said someone would come out to get me when they are ready for me....
So in a few minutes, the Doctor's Nurse comes out and leads me to the doctor's room, passed the lobby and no one is in the lobby, everyone is waiting outside in their cars.... passed no one in the hallway to the doctor/changing room, nurse stopped me at the scale to weigh me in..... HATE that part, but I was the same as last year...thank God!
Oh, did I tell you the nurse not only had a surgical mask, but also a plexiglass shield over her eyes and face?
So then I get my blood pressure and oxygen level and pulse rate done by her, and get in to the gown, she comes back in and sits a little ipad on the table in front of me and tells me my doctor will speak to me via the computer for the first twenty minutes to get all of my issues down, before coming in to actually see me face to face, to limit her and my exposure to one another.....
so, via the computer I tell her all of my issues, then she shows up to the room with lab coat and n 95 mask and plexiglass face shield and comes in the room and immediately goes behind a plexiglass folding wall, where her computer is, and talks to me from there about my lab results, and even examined a mole of mine that I wanted her to look at, behind this plexiglass screen..... only after she looked at it through her plastic barrier and near the end of the appointment, did she spend a few seconds out from behind her screen to look at the mole again, directly.....
She spent about 2 minutes in the actual room with me, out from behind her plexiglass folding wall, and then left.....after she told me where to leave the gown and I could leave when dressed, I did, with no one in the hall or lobby, on the way out.
the whole experience, was like I was in some twilight zone episode....!!!!!!!!!!!
But at the same time, I kind of liked it..... I liked the Health Center doctors taking all of those precautions, and I really liked talking to her face to face on the Computer..... I felt more at ease asking her my stupid questions about things, and she seemed more willing to answer them and at ease....not rushed....
Has anyone else been to see the Doctor lately and is your Doctor's Office like, what I went through?
but during the Spring during the lock down, they would only allow the patient in, dad busted his hand installing my sister's new garage door opener, nearly a hundred stitches in all, but they would not let my mother and sister, in to the emergency room.
That mask will not protect you from any virus.
So I don't care what happens to me....I won't go in for treatment.
The last time my wife had surgery they gave her drugs that screwed her mind up permanently.
I would sue the hospital but because she's 82 I wouldn't win in court.
Their drug cocktails simply pushed her into dementia.
Now I'm having to retire from civil service to take care of her.