Need to go to the doctor to check on something

[KarmaPolice]

Just wondering...All my life I have gone to one doctor and I can no longer go to that one. Looking at the hospital near by there are so many departments..I just want a general doctor to check up on something....thats just internal medicine right? or should it be under something else?

 

[leftyman]

general practitioner or family doctor

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: leftyman
general practitioner or family doctor

Check into a general practicioner/family doc that has specialized in Internal Medicine. Depending on the health care system and your insurance(if you have any) you can't just walk in and ask to see a doctor. You have to be referred by your primary care physician.

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: leftyman
general practitioner or family doctor

Check into a general practicioner/family doc that has specialized in Internal Medicine. Depending on the health care system and your insurance(if you have any) you can't just walk in and ask to see a doctor. You have to be referred by your primary care physician.

 

[leftyman]

I think he is looking for a new primary care physician.

 

[vi edit]

If you are looking for a primary care physican, then yes, look for one that has an internal med background. They have several additional years of training and diagnosing over a typical general practice doc.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I am just looking for a general doctor to check on something..not necessarily a doctor that i want to stick with forever. The hospital here is huge

 

[vi edit]

Are you still in Japan, or are you back in the US?

If you are in the US, in most hospitals the only place you can "walk" into is the Emergency Department. Everything else is set up through a primary care physican. But if you walk into an ED, you are going to pay an insane amount of money for that service.

Check to see if the hospital has a prompt care service that you can use. It's basically an "ED Lite". Service will typically be quicker, and it's quite a bit cheaper.

 

[Codewiz]

It took me three years to find a competent doctor when I moved here. I had been treated by my grandfather who was a doctor early in life until he passed away then I was treated by my grandfather's best friend. Always had great care. Moved to a new city after college and kept getting IDIOTS for doctors....

On a recommendation of a friend, I went to his doctor who is a geriatrics doctor. Yeah yeah, I am only 28 but he has diagnosed every ailment within minutes of describing my issues. My wife had been suffering from pain in her feet for two years and our old doctor here had no idea. My geriatrics doctor figured it out before she even finished describing the pain.