Yeah, I hear you. Especially with psych issues. I'm just saying enough to get my scripts renewed.

There is a principle called "Continuity of Care," which they're supposed to promote by minimizing the number of changes in providers. That's become a joke.

AND, as someone who worked in healthcare, I know that open, effective communication is the lifeblood of good healthcare. I would be extremely slow, now, to confide anything sensitive to anyone. Partly, it's fear . . . . and, partly, it's: why bother?

Most of the time they're not listening. Then they don't really work together and connect the dots.

My doctor told me to take Aleve for my tendonitis. The speech therapist told me that could be aggravating my heartburn. (NSAIDS promote bleeding in sore areas.) She was thinking smarter than my doctor, who btw is a teacher at the local medical school.

You just don't know who to turn to . . . who to trust.

A year ago, I was at Urgent Care and, then, the emergency room with bad belly pain. Two Nurse Practitioners at UC and a resident doctor at the ED told me it was nothing serious. A paramedic in the ED said she thought it was more serious and talked a different doctor into ordering an MRI. It showed I had diverticulitis. You never know which person is going to have the most good sense.