My pdoc takes pretty much all insurance/Medicad/Medicare I usually spend 75 minutes, plus or minus 15, with her. She does some therapy (although I have a regular therapist too and she requires this) in that session and the rest is the usual med check stuff. I can email and usually get a response; if I call I can leave a message but may or may not get a call back depending on the issue. She is always booked and emergency appointments happen only with extremely rare situations.

I see her at a huge teaching hospital which is why so many insurances are accepted. She is an attending and I've been her patient longer than she's been at the teaching hospital. She believes in giving people what she thinks they need and that means sometimes you wait a while for her but you know you'll get the same time given to you also. She only sees patients part-time and is administration the rest. I think that she mostly sees patients like me who have seen her for a very long time at this point; she hasn't taken new patients in years.

It's a wonderful set-up and I know how fortunate I am. I know when she retires it will change and be really hard to adjust to shorter visits that won't allow me to say "remember how awful things were when ________ happened?" and have her know what I mean.