Choosing a Primary Care Physician
Marty: Choosing a primary care doctor
Marty, 35, interviewed three primary care doctors before choosing one. “I wrote up a list of questions I wanted to ask them,” he said. “They all seemed competent, but the last one was able to explain things in a way that I understood, so I picked him.”
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Marilyn: Choosing a primary care doctor
Marilyn, 52, did not feel comfortable with her primary care doctor, who had been recommended by a friend. But she did not really know who else to choose. Then she needed a same-day appointment for a cough that was going into her chest. She liked the doctor she saw, so she called her plan’s member services and asked if the doctor could be her primary care doctor. It turned out the doctor was new to the plan and had just recently started practicing, so she was taking new patients. “She has been my doctor for eight years now.”
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Steve: Choosing a primary care doctor
Steve, a 46-year-old man with HIV, needed to find a new doctor after his physician retired. He asked his HIV-positive friends for recommendations. “It turned out that several people I knew were working with this one doctor, and they all had great things to say about him. When I met him, I liked him right away because he looked me straight in the eye and said he believed that figuring out the right regimen and strategy for me was something we had to decide on together.”
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