A Wrenching Farewell: Bidding Adieu to My Primary Care Doctor After Nearly 30 Years
From the Kaiser Health News website
Starting with a new doctor when you are 60 or older is a challenge!
I hadn’t expected the tears.
My primary care doctor and I were saying goodbye after nearly 30 years together.
“You are a kind and a good person,” he told me after the physical exam, as we wished each other good luck and good health.
“I trust you completely — and always have,” I told him, my eyes overflowing.
“That means so much to me,” he responded, bowing his head.
Will I ever have another relationship like the one with this physician, who took time to ask me how I was doing each time he saw me? Who knew me from my first months as a young mother, when my thyroid went haywire, and who since oversaw all my medical concerns, both large and small?
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