I am out of "next providers". There is nobody else local to go to. This was an attempt to bring it back to a workable distance, as going into NYC or even New Haven or anywhere else on a regular or sudden need basis is not really possible, given that I don't drive and there is no public transportation here.

But at least I have learned that the local ER & hospital is really, really, not a place to go, under anything but "I am dying NOW" circumstances.

Which throws a big kink in the works, my current GP having proven useless, I am waiting for a first appointment with a new one (early April, the good doctors are all either not taking new patients, or booked way out). But this guy is part of the Hospital system, which owns most of the doctors, practices, specialties, services, in the area. They only refer to each other, other doctors and suppliers within the hospital system (of course, being told they could only do that would be illegal, but, somehow, they don't ever refer outside the system, and once when one WAS caught having told me to go outside the system, you never saw anyone backpedal so fast and deny it!) So now I'm going to start with a new doctor, and tell him I absolutely won't be dealing with his hospital or their supposed specialists in my main problem? Oh goody. That should go over well.

I would quite gladly just quit and live within it, but stupid arm decided to get worse recently. And of course, then all the other problems it generates. I have seven more years until my youngest is out of high school, so unfortunately I have to make myself last at least that long. But nobody's helping me, in the least.