Reply #16: He spent an hour with me today.

[Sydnie]

I think he even stayed with me through his lunch time. Not even with my usual primary do I get an hour of his time.

I have been with this office, in one incarnation or another, for 21 years. He has been with them for at least 19 of those years. They were originally all together under an HMO that I had those many years ago. When the HMO broke up, they banded together, rented the office space they were using at the time from the HMO, and continued the services they had been providing under their own steam. A few years ago, the HMO sold the building they were using and they stayed together and moved into new facilities across the street from where they had been all those years. Some doctors have come and gone in those years, including a nurse practitioner that I loved dearly (who had come and gone twice ... they keep dragging her back into the practice!) but the core group has remained the same.

Now, there are doctors there that I prefer not to see and will only see them if I think I can't wait for one of my preferred providers, but this one I will see again. In four weeks, as a matter of fact.

Thank your husband for me. We need more like him out there.