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| - Dr. Rosenstein was recommended on the NextDoor app. Regrettably, I need to switch my primary care doctor. I love her and think she's a smart and wonderful doctor, but she's not independent; she works for Dignity Health, and dealing with the office has become an unbearable nightmare.
Since this was a first visit, mainly for a meet-and-greet, I'm giving three stars for the overall experience. I'm hoping I'll be able to bump it up after the next one.
I arrived for my appointment a bit early, to fill out the endless paperwork. The waiting room is huge, but dated and dreary. There's not even a water cooler. It was pretty full, but there are five doctors in the practice. Once I finished printing and signing my name almost as many times as you have to do when taking out a mortgage, I figured it was only a matter of time until I was called in. Wrong. I waited way over an hour after that, and was almost the last one in the waiting room. The woman at the front desk said this is not the usual case. I hope not. By the time I got taken, I asked the assistant to wait to take my BP, because I was ready to explode. There's no wi-fi and I have a limited data plan, so just how many games of Dots can a person play?
I didn't have to wait very long for the doctor to come in. Dr. Rosenstein is very personable, and I liked him. I do have a pretty broad knowledge of medicine (and not from reading Wikipedia or WebMD). Some doctors take offense at this, so I have a little private test that I do to see if a new doctor is annoyed and has a holier-than-thou attitude. He passed the test - at least I hope so. I will see him again.
A sign of the times, though: I've never cared one way or the other whether a doctor I see is male or female. But in light of all of the #MeToo moments, it seems that male doctors have become a little skittish of touching a female, even to look at something on as innocuous a body part as the back!
After the waiting room fiasco, I was pleased. Time will tell.
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