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by xenadu02
964 days ago
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This works unless you GP is a huge jerkface in which case find a new one. Just be honest: tell your GP that your previous provider quit/retired/changed insurance. Bring your prior RX bottles or paperwork. Let them know you have an appointment with your new provider on X date and ask them to cover you until then. I've done this when changing insurance (twice) and when moving states (New provider had a waitlist. First time she wrote one month then when I reported the waitlist situation she ended up covering it for 3-4 months). |
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My parents live on a fairly highly populated island, and the only doctor decided to leave. No new one is allowed to move in to serve the population until the government gets around to setting that up. It will probably be a year or more of thousands of elderly people having no medical care at all.
I explained on the phone that in the US, this demand and lack of supply would quickly sort itself out by someone moving in and setting up. Being a certified MD in the state is all they'd need. This was mind-blowing to my socialized-medicine parents.