Hi,

This is enormously helpful to talk out.

i don't really think she is bipolar. But it was hard to get past the loud voice. I could hear her later when she was talking to other patients down the hall.

Mostly at this point in my medical journey I want someone a little pushy and thorough. I do not want lackadaisical. So she fits most important criteria.

Very important -- she is capable enough to liaison for me with my current pdoc. That is useful. Also I was impressed (used to very lousy doctoring) that she got the ER reports while I was there and read them to me. !!!!!!

They were incomplete as ER tests would be. She wants me to come back for a fasting blood draw for thyroid and cholesterol and whatever would come up on the standard tests she runs.
And she did not bat and eye when I said I would need to come in the middle of the day -- not early am for that. Some offices only do 8:00 - 8:30 m for fasting blood draws.
Even better, she did not make me go to a separate lab for that.

Also, she brought up potential sleep apnea and would try to get a lab to do a sleep study very late for me
(--not likely -- the other guy can accomodate with a 3:00 am appointment time so that I fall asleep pretty close to my almost usual 5:00 am that but she mostly likely cannot).
I might take her up on her office anyway. The sleep specialist I saw in Dec 08 is too far away (an hour plus) and frankly a little annoying -- mostly because he is a guy and I thought I recognized a tendency to bully.

I took her anti-biotic (amoxicil.. . ) for a day and a half or more and got its inconvenient side effect. I called her office earlier today to tell her I had d/c ed it.

M.