Help! Looking for a Good Primary Care Physician in Irving, Texas, suggestions anyone?
Reading a great book called "You: the smart patient", and found my PCP (call him Dr G) to be quite inept. While his physicians assistant is normally the one I see, my PCP will be torn away from whatever he does to avoid patients if and when I go into the hospital.
I have decided he is the last person on the face of the Earth for me. No matter what my medical condition when I see him, it is always the same answer. He hands me a 5th generation photocopy of a one page low-fat diet and sends me out. My stepdad (in his 80s) can hardly walk to the street and is constantly on oxygen. He bought an old wheelchair from a neighbor, but barely has strength to push himself. Whe he asked for the doctor’s help in getting an electric wheelchair, the doctor said, oh, medicare won’t pay for one of those for you! You can still walk. He treated this great WWII ex-Marine like dirt. I deicded that was it. I do not want him or anyone he would suggest. Anyone (esp. from the medical field) have suggestions??
I’m sure there are plenty of doctors in Irving Txas that will show an ex-Marine the respect he deserves. Try looking here http://www.ucomparehealthcare.com/drs/texas/IRVING.html and take a free report to compare the doctors you are considering. It’s really too bad that so many doctors "practice medicine" for the wrong reasons. They care too much about what expensive outfit they’re wearing to be bothered to actually work with the people that end up paying for these fancy luxuries. They give the doctors that really care a bad name.
http://physician–directory.com/States/Texas.html