Maggie's Farm

Excellent article. It's just too bad that many physicians are over-booked these days and don't have time for chit chat.

My wife has been a patient of her PCP for over fifteen years. I almost always go with her to the exam room. He's my PCP as well so I have first hand knowledge that the doctor really doesn't know anything about either of us aside from what's on his computer screen. My wife and I have done a LOT in our younger days - kinda' like the things you are doing now. We built two houses with our own hands; Birthed farm animals; I helped build a couple nuclear plants and, more recently, an airplane. I still fly it but the doc doesn't know that (or care, I suspect). I used to launch Space Shuttles. He never asked about any of that. To him, we're just another couple of old people. As a matter of fact, we saw him today and it was all strictly business. He fiddled with a couple of my wife's prescriptions and that was it. Well, it was late in the afternoon and he just looked tired. You might ask, "Why don't you find another doctor?", but that's easier said than done in a small town. There are only a couple of doctors who accept new patients so we decided to stick with "the devil that we know".