It looks like it's time for a new doctor for our ninety-year-old relative. How can we find a good one? We haven't been able to find a gerontologist in the area by web searching. They need to be located in or near Laurel, Maryland, or in Howard County. She has good private health insurance and savings. Maybe we should be open to concierge care, although we hate the unfairness of the whole idea. Her primary care doctor retired last year, so she's under the care of another doctor in the same clinic, but it's not very good care. The practice has been bought by a hospital that appears to value speed over quality. The doctor wants to see her online, but at ninety years old she can't manage that sort of thing anymore. When she went to see the doctor in person for a checkup a month or two ago, the visit was allotted such a short period of time that it didn't seem like the doctor even heard her. I think it wasn't even a doctor who saw her, but a nurse practitioner.
In the last few weeks she's been having serious new trouble with muscle soreness and weakness, and has been unable to do much of her usual daily exercise routine. We want her to see the doctor, but she saw her only a few weeks ago and says that didn't do much good. Maybe a new doctor would help?
In the last few weeks she's been having serious new trouble with muscle soreness and weakness, and has been unable to do much of her usual daily exercise routine. We want her to see the doctor, but she saw her only a few weeks ago and says that didn't do much good. Maybe a new doctor would help?