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Dem2theMax

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6. I feel exactly the same way about my doctor.
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 09:14 PM
Jun 2020

I will be 64 this year, and my doctor is probably in her late 30s or early forties. For the past few years, I have really felt like she doesn't get it. Even with all of her medical knowledge, she is younger than me and she hasn't experienced what I am going through. Yet.
Her time will come.

My father, who passed away at the age of 93, he did have a geriatric doctor. I went to most of my father's doctor appointments with him. And I can say that the care he got was much different. It was much more directed toward his age and the issues that seniors face.

That is specifically why I started paying attention to the way my doctor was treating me. And it's why I am going to switch to a geriatric doctor.

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