Rant #3,274: Doctor My Eyes

I kind of thought 2024 would be a better year than 2023 was, but I am starting to doubt myself.

Physically, I am doing great, but there are outside forces that are beginning to make me NUTS!!!!

Long-time readers of this column know the saga of my former doctor, the one who had to close his practice and was jailed for selling drugs to students at Massapequa High School.

Well, what comes around goes around, and while the latest episode may not exactly resemble that debacle, it puts my family and I in the same place: without a doctor.

I had been calling my doctor for about two weeks to get two of my prescriptions filled, and all I got was a constant busy signal, no matter what office of his that I called.

My wife had an appointment early yesterday morning for some tests, and the local location was closed when she arrived..

Not knowing what to do, I called the hospital where the doctor is affiliated, and another group, where he also has an affiliation, to no avail.

I was wondering if his practice went out of business or is simply closed for some type of emergency, but then I knew something was really awry, because I called a doctors' association, and I found out that my doctor pulled all his credentials with them about a month ago.

What I later found out was when the doctor called me himself through the hospital.

All he said is that they were forced to close all.of their establishments due to an administrative manner, which he did not get into, and that they were in legal limbo right now.

in other words, we should look for another doctor. He said he was blocked from seeing his patients or contacting them about the situation, and that is why we never heard from him. He gave me a couple of other doctors he would recommend. The bottom line is thst his office is closed indefinitely, and if he is your doctor, find another one.

Heaven knows what this is all about, but once again, my doctor has failed me and failed his other patients.

I was able to get my prescription filled through my health care provider, but my wife needs to get those tests done.

I have no idea if I can get our medical records from the doctor, but remembering what I went through the last time--where I never could get those records even though my doctor was in jail--I just know that there is going to be a problem with this.

Goodness, what else can go wrong?

This is retirement?

Read more about this story at https://longisland.news12.com/patients-of-blueprint-md-scramble-to-find-new-doctors-as-medical-company-appears-to-have-suddenly-shut-down?fbclid=IwAR1a2i-jT1o4Yb2jdZ748WdpwUQ9trB1dtUAnQu9KDAwWs4cERjHAdG0TVQ.