Should your Doctor be able to force you to "x" number of appointments?

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27. My problem is with finding a chronic condition in everyone

Drs. don't seem to want to heal people any longer. They want to find chronic conditions then convince people that they need certain meds in order to live. Then they keep you running back every 3 months in order to get the meds you have been told you need to survive.

Then, you can't actually get into see your Dr. when you're sick because the Dr is all filled up two weeks out. So you go to urgent care when you're sick, and pay a higher copay. Then on your followup 2 weeks later, because you couldn't actually see your Dr when you were sick, you go to the office, sign in and sit in the waiting room. I guess Drs finally paid attention to patients complaints about the long waits in the waiting room and now they take you in right away and then you wait for over an hour for the Dr to come into the exam room. Then you're told you went to the wrong urgent care facility because your Dr is not affiliated with them and there is nothing they can do but tell you that you need a bunch of tests and give you referrals to all their Dr friends for things you didn't go to the Dr for. All the while ignoring the fact that you went for a follow up for when you got sick in the first place.

I don't have the time or the personality to run around town to get the run around from Drs and their employees (snotty receptionists mostly) who act as if they are doing you a favor by letting you wait in one of their exam rooms to see the Dr.

Oh, and don't forget to pay first.