This is expected since more people are now seeking treatment since they are being covered and they’re not sure how to navigate finding a primary care physician. This should get smoothed out a it goes along. It is confounding to find a primary care physician or even figure out which health group to use.

Trial and error, convenience and referrals from friends have been what I used but it is still confounding to try to get the different health providers to talk to each other. I recently tried to see a specialist I had seen before even though I am not using this provider group for my primary care anymore. I thought he was good so I wanted to see him for my new issue which was really an aggravation of a previous issue. He was busy so they offered me another physician who they said worked with him. His name was Gupta so I thought, Sanjay. He gave me a referral to a hospital to get a procedure. I went. The tech asked me if the tech who did the procedure had talked to me. No, I told her. The doctor who referred you will get the report, she said. When I went back to have another procedure by that doctor he said he didn’t get it. He may have said I should make an appointment with the guy I tried to make the appointment with in the first place. I’m not sure because I was still coming out of anesthesia. Some nurse or something like one did poke her head in and tell me I didn’t have cancer.

Once I recover from the ankle fusion I will set up an appointment with a new internist at my new provider and see how I can get my results from the old provider. I will see about getting my records transferred.