Have You

Doctor’s visits are different,

Or have you noticed?

And I am not speaking about unscheduled emergencies, but routine check ups. I remember previous ones where at some point a garment is unbuttoned and your body is touched,

However, no longer need you fear about the proper attire for a routine visit because your body remains untouched.

All the attention from both the highly skilled professional and the patient is given to completing a lengthy comprehensive questionnaire,

The mandatory Medicare document includes a discussion of the patient’s proximity to smoke detectors, and emphasizes degrees of depression. The questionnaire takes up most of the normal 45 minute visit with your health care expert, and you yearn to go back in time to the now extinct family friend and physician.

The questionnaire is seemingly endless, and I dare to wonder who or what (AI?) was the author, And yes, the cost since it is being currently utilized by most, if not all, medical facilities. Possibly the editor/and or author was able to retire immediately after completion of the assigned task

At the end of the visit, perhaps you will learn as I did, that the pleasant, courteous and kind physician you have spent time with will not be available in the event of an emergency visit to a local hospital. You will be treated by a “Hospital Doctor,” whose acquaintance you have never met.

And the words, “The best is yet to be” seem to lack validity as I try not to be discouraged or remember the kind and professional care my husband and I received for decades from a Father/Son practice in Amityville, NY.

And the consolation of knowing they were with my beloved as he boarded the ferry.