How to connecte the primary care doctor?

It’s a problem that many patients don’t know how to connecte the primary care doctor,60 percent in fact.
As someone who lives with and works with individuals with lupus, the primary care physician is less likely to be able to provide necessary ‘support’ due to the increased specialized care we need.
In addition, for those of us without insurance coverage, the primary care physician means more money towards medical and less for living expenses. We save cash for specialists, meds and food.they felt appropriately “connected” to their primary care physician.However, that leaves a significant 40 percent who were not.
According to a recent study, patients who were not connected were less likely to received recommended preventive care and other screening tests.
Which all comes as no surprise. Not only is it increasingly difficult to find a new primary care doctor in the first place, but those who accept new patients are part of larger groups, work part time, or are mid-level providers who work in concert with physicians.Furthermore, with the proliferation of retail clinics and the worsening crowding in emergency departments, more patients are obtaining primary care from multiple providers.
Which means that as we move forward, it is less likely that patients can identify with a single person they can call their primary care provider.And, if this study is to be believed, that means that more preventive care measures will fall by the wayside.
I can not stress enough how important preventive care is! The only thing I can do is give you my personal experience…I had my preventive visit last fall. Found out I had positive fecal occult blood test and my blood work showed that I was anemic (that explains why I was so tired!). Obviously, I had some bleeding going on somewhere, but nothing that showed up with any subjective symptoms. I went for further testing and my colonoscopy showed that I had diverticulitis; however, I also had one pre-cancerous polyp removed.

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