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I swear I'm not a hypochondriac, but in the past 3 months, I've fully taken advantage of having medical insurance. And the lucky recipient of my UnitedHealth plan--Allcare.
I found out about Allcare after a curtailed search on Yelp (www.yelp.com :) ), and have not regretted a moment since. Walking into the smallish but professional waiting area in Allcare, I was given forms to fill out and sign by people who *actually seemed to like where they worked.* That's important. The wait has never been more than 5 minutes, not even enough to finish the chapter of whatever book I was currently reading. The rooms are small, but efficient, with the normal pictures of digestive tracts, people who seem happy to be prodded and poked at.
[I'm not a fan of going to see doctors and hospitals. In fact, they creep me out, terrify me, and makes me want to cry, sometimes all at the same time.]
I've only really spoken with PTs, but on the whole, they were informed, able to answer my avalanche of questions, and politely refrained from telling me that I'm a hypochondriac to my face. I've also had numerous points of contact with the blood-tech... Tony.... I can't imagine drawing blood for a living, for one, I don't think I have the right shade of red. And I learned another reason--I am completely freaked out by blood, especially the idea and action of someone taking blood from me. If you go, and see Tony, shake his hand, because he had to put up with a lot from me. (I quickly learned that I need to be lying down, and that I will hyperventilate and collapse into hysteria... for about 10 minutes).
So yeah, if you want somewhere clean, professional, not pretentious and yet still pretty cool... Allcare is highly recommended (at least by me).
On a side note, I plan on transferring my primary care to Dr. Gerace as soon as I get un-lazy enough.
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