Breaking In A New Doctor

I was disappointed when my endocrinologist left for a new hospital. But I can understand that as the mother of two small children she needed a shorter commute to be able to achieve a good work/life balance. However, that meant I needed a new endocrinologist. I met him yesterday.Before I met my endocrinologist after I had an appointment with my rheumatologist who is a nice woman in her late 50s/early 60s who has been a doctor for many years. In contrast my endocrinologist joined the hospital in early July after his residency. This means he is a kid, literally. I think I have clothes older than he is.When I met him, my first sentence was " I have a complicated medical history " . At least he had read parts of it but that lead to a big discussion about how I used to have an endocrinologist and then didn ' t and then finally did again which lead to evil ultrasounds that drove me crazy because they were supposed to be clean but weren ' t for a couple of years.He didn ' t break down and cry when looking at my medical history. We made a deal. I will come back and see him in December after I get more thyroid blood work done. Then every six months I will have more blood work done and I will see him once a year. And I only will have another ultrasound if my thyroid levels go up which would signal a recurrence.That was a good start. But I wish he would grow up a little bit.....
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: doctors endocrinologist thyroid cancer young doctors Source Type: blogs