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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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Does anyone go to a geriatrics doc? [View all] lillypaddle Jun 2020 OP

I've wondered the same. My next trip is going to be to an older doc for sure. Hoyt Jun 2020 #1

I will be waiting to find out.. I am 72 and have a young obese primary care MD LiberalArkie Jun 2020 #2

My father was a cardiologist/internist. 75% of his patients were geriatric. no_hypocrisy Jun 2020 #3

I have tried lillypaddle Jun 2020 #4

Dad was "old school" from the early Fifties. He retired mid-Eighties. no_hypocrisy Jun 2020 #5

I feel exactly the same way about my doctor. Dem2theMax Jun 2020 #6

Please let me (us) know how that goes lillypaddle Jun 2020 #8

My parents Rebl2 Jun 2020 #7

If you can't find a geriatrician- I understand there aren't too many - marybourg Jun 2020 #9

Thanks for the tip lillypaddle Jun 2020 #10