My wife and I had our quarterly pain follow up appointments with our PCP Wednesday afternoon. We always schedule two appointments ahead so that we don't have any problems getting in. When we reminded the receptionist that the appointment in three months wasn't adequate and she needed to schedule one in six months, she let slip the information that our doctor is leaving in four months. He has NO PLAN moving forward and hasn't even talked to any of the other providers in the office about taking on our cases. Every pain management office has refused our cases because they're medication management cases, which means that they can't make obscene money. The other doctors in the office have been extremely vocal about their objections regardless his management of our case. There are a few new providers that haven't chimed in, but two of them are PA-Cs (physician's assistants), which can't prescribe CIIs.
Steve
