When our beloved young lady doctor retired early (children and a well placed husband), it triggered a degree of anxiety, as we were lucky to have found her, (right out of med school).
As we are not native to our small town, we had no long term knowledge of the local practitioners.
Yesterday was a day of happy triumph, when we made our first visit to our new doctor. No adequate way to describe the superlatives... Extremely smart, and with an office demeanor that made us comfortable and confident.
It's like finding a diamond on a large beach.
Maybe not so much for younger folks, but for those of us who are aging, the most important thing about a physician is his ability to relate, and to spend the time to draw out the concerns of his patient. In our case he is a geriatric specialist, who is on the leading edge of geriatric medicine... much of which never reaches the news, or even the pages of WebMD, or the NIH.
It was a time to put in to perspective all of the complaints, aches and pains and other worries. A time to separate the things that can be changed, and to learn to accept and mitigate those thing that are normal or common to our age.
Not so much a subject for discussion as to "how to find", but a comment on how meaningful a doctor can be to our mental, as well as physical well-being.
As we are not native to our small town, we had no long term knowledge of the local practitioners.
Yesterday was a day of happy triumph, when we made our first visit to our new doctor. No adequate way to describe the superlatives... Extremely smart, and with an office demeanor that made us comfortable and confident.
It's like finding a diamond on a large beach.
Maybe not so much for younger folks, but for those of us who are aging, the most important thing about a physician is his ability to relate, and to spend the time to draw out the concerns of his patient. In our case he is a geriatric specialist, who is on the leading edge of geriatric medicine... much of which never reaches the news, or even the pages of WebMD, or the NIH.
It was a time to put in to perspective all of the complaints, aches and pains and other worries. A time to separate the things that can be changed, and to learn to accept and mitigate those thing that are normal or common to our age.
Not so much a subject for discussion as to "how to find", but a comment on how meaningful a doctor can be to our mental, as well as physical well-being.