Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Episode 30: What's My Name? Mary Dell, MD (Medical Detective)

Here’s a call out to the then-Snoop Dogg (now "Lion," or was last I heard) for the use of his title—gotta love that tune! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHKEJqMSiDg[Contains “obscene” language.  And while we’re discussing that, here’s a link to George Carlin’s “SevenDirty Words” to loosen you up.]

Okay, if your ears can't handle a little profane reality--here's what I'm really talking about today:  MYSTERY SOLVED, or at least a huge chunk of it, no thanks to the doctor/patient relationship I'm now negotiating with my much-loved primary care physician who, I fear, is burning out on me and on her practice in general.  And who can blame her?  Our health care system is so messed up today with everyone's running a patient's care OTHER than her own doctor--that's backasswards.  If I were a caring physician today, I'd be as burned out as she is.  I could just as easily have included this in my Down the Rabbit Hole series on the madness of today’s health care system as the story starts with more of that madness.  First, I will lay out the facts: