Somebody please help me hipsters have taken over my doctor’s office! Back in August of this year I got a letter from my medical practitioner stating that she had been laid off as the result of an executive decision.This troubled me greatly because she had been my personal care provider for many years very close to ten in fact. This decision of course did not take in consideration the impact this would have on individual patients, and certainly not her!
Over the years I discussed many issues with her many of them life changing events and many of them were what some people might consider trivial but I say it’s the little things in life that matter the most sometimes.
Point being if the little things add up, without getting them off ones chest by the time something big comes up it may already be past the breaking point. She was there for me when my blood sugar was near stroke or heart attack level and when my mom passed away.
She was there to hear me sound off about love lost and many other key issues in my life in short she became a valued confidant and as far as I’m concerned like family.
Getting back to the hipster issue however, recently while checking in with my near personal care provider because my blood sugar was at an alarming level I was given the usual talk of how this is way too high, asked questions about my eating habits and given advice.
The vast majority of this was from an in house pharmacist rather than my doctor, who I kid you not took less time talking to me than triage initially took.
The breaking point of this little talk with the pharmacist came when he tried to prescribe me drugs that I most definitely do not wish to take under any circumstances and when he said marijuana is a central nervous system depressant, ha !
The thing that amazes me and should anybody with a functioning brain is that so called “folk medicine” is referred to as “alternative” medicine as opposed to the manmade chemicals that have only been in use a mere 100 years if that.
He finely brow beat and badgered me into taking a higher dose of one drug for diabetes and adding an additional one. Somebody please save me from these hipsters who’s every other word is “cool”!