I don't know where to put this thread.

I went to see my primary care provider yesterday. My doctor that I had for a number of years left, so where I go for healthcare assigned me to a new provider - a physician's assistant. I 've seen her 3 or 4 times. I don't like her.

Actually, I can't say that she's not a good person or a good provider. I don't really know. She seems smart and consciencious. I just don't like her. She seems curt and bloodless. She asks a lot of questions. Then she seems detached, cold. I feel like a specimen getting viewed under a microscope. I feel like she's studying me. But there's something weird about it.

I've been disturbed, since the appointment. Now I don't know what to do. I don't know if I can request to be assigned to another provider, or who I would even ask to do that. I'm afraid it would get me labeled as a problem patient to say I want someone else.

Anyone ever feel this way?

I don't have a pdoc or a therapist. My primary care provider is it. So it seems like I ought to have a better relationship with the one person I see for healthcare. She is very thorough. She likes to order tests. But I could not imagine myself confiding anything in her.

I wonder what my options are? I don't know what to do.

I am really bothered by this feeling of unease.