Healthcare 65 Plus

Next we tried a dedicated senior center, where you had physicians, a pharmacy, x-rays and tests along with an activity room and an Uber service to and from the center.

 All this and a vast array of unhealth snacks for free in the waiting room. Yes, cookies, soda, potato chips, candy bars, cheese doodles…. you name it! All totally free for all the diabetic and hypertensive patients as well as any others. At each monthly visit , (yes, I did say monthly visit ) you would get a new prescription for something or other’ especially after you waited in the lobby snacking on sugar and salt at free gratis for over a half hour. What do you suppose that did for your blood pressure or Glucose level? 

 In addition they did every test imaginable. Each month you would need another new test. An ultrasound of your heart even if you were not a heart patient, x-rays of your lungs, etc. They really cleaned up on Medicare. Then you di not have to drive. They would send an Uber service to pick you up nd bring you home. After three months of this little scam I began asking questions about my own health and when I received vague answers, I knew I was in the wrong place. So I left. Especially after I had not seen one purported event occur in the activity room. 

Next, I went to a family health practice. This seemed to be several grades up in improvement. I was assigned a Nurse Practitioner who had a laptop, which went with her everywhere. She would have been  lost with out it. In fact I only saw her face briefly when she entered the room. The rest of the time she was on that laptop searching medications. she would prescribe and take tests till Hell would not have it! 

Then not want to see you for six months. When she found out I was a wellness Coach, she somehow decided we were opponents. I went to her office when I had caught a bacterial pneumonia and she stated that was a white flag. I guess she thought I was surrendering.  I did not have the heart to tell her that Western Medicine does indeed have it’s place in the world  Such as infections, broken bones, necessary surgeries, inoculations and etc. It is the eagerness to treat symptoms instead of the cause of comorbidities that we find problematic. At any rate we moved from that town and the problem solved itself.