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Author Topic: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors  (Read 24607 times)

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Offline Rev. Moon

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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #50 on: May 13, 2011, 02:10:50 pm »
But cock worshipping syndrome works also. ;D

Cock Worshipping Specialist... Hmmm, I've been practicing in that field for nearly two decades, how do I get my certification?
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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #51 on: May 13, 2011, 02:11:37 pm »
Cock Worshipping Specialist... Hmmm, I've been practicing in that field for nearly two decades, how do I get my certification?

Inorite?

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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #52 on: May 13, 2011, 02:21:18 pm »
Cock Worshipping Specialist... Hmmm, I've been practicing in that field for nearly two decades, how do I get my certification?

Oral exam at my place.
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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #53 on: May 13, 2011, 02:21:57 pm »
Inorite?

Inorite?




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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #54 on: May 13, 2011, 02:35:49 pm »
Inorite[/color=]?

How long have you been sitting on that waiting to link to it, missy?

Offline Ann

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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #55 on: May 13, 2011, 02:38:27 pm »
How long have you been sitting on that waiting to link to it, missy?

For about ten seconds before I posted it. Why, was it warm?
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Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #56 on: May 13, 2011, 02:39:38 pm »
For about ten seconds before I posted it. Why, was it warm?

and moist

Offline Solo_LTSurvivor

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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #57 on: May 13, 2011, 05:28:44 pm »
Inorite?

A little birdie told me that it's a derivative of inodatsrite   ;)
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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #58 on: May 13, 2011, 05:35:46 pm »
So do others here actually have two doctors one they see for their HIV and another for everything else? 

Prior to HIV I have a GP that I had been going to for years.  She was great and I wish I could see her still.  Once the HIV came into my life she referred me to another doc who specializes in HIV care, but he is also my new GP.  I see him for everything.
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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #59 on: May 13, 2011, 06:23:08 pm »
Yes, more than one doc here.
An HIV doc.
A GP.
not to mention other specialists for other care.
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Offline bufguy

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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #60 on: May 17, 2011, 11:46:13 am »
My PCP is my an HIV specialist...the best of both worlds. I go to him for the flu, or other non HIV related items. There are many examples where patients will seek out PCP's that are specialists in certain fields....heart, diabetes, geriatric, OBGYN. I would just make sure that the PCP one chooses is an HIV expert.
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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #61 on: May 17, 2011, 12:41:07 pm »
My last doctor when I lived in NYC was not an infectious disease specialist.  His degree was actually internal medicine, hematology and oncology, but as he was gay he had been treating HIV since the earliest days and that was the bulk of his patient load, notably having once been Keith Haring's physician.  He was also a contributing editor for AmFAR's treatment directory, editor of AIDS Clinical Care and the author of a book on HIV treatment, though not quite ancient as it was published in 1992.

Once I moved to Philadelphia my first doctor was a straight woman and an actual Infectious Disease specialist, but also my PCP. I saw her for only two years and when she moved her practice to the suburbs I switched to my current physician, also an ID specialist but also the Medical Director of the entire HIV clinic, and this specific HIV clinic is also the largest one in the city. He also has an Internal Medicine certification in addiction to ID so he's quite skilled in comprehensive care and I'm very fortunate to have him.  

As an aside, plenty of times I've seen people come on this board asking for HIV infectious disease doctor recommendations, and when I've googled the recommendations I've often found that the doctor in question is actually not an ID specialist but an Internal Medicine doctor, but obviously with a large HIV patient load.  If you read the HIV Medicine Association web site you will see that the issue is more complex than many patients realize.

The bottom line for me is that I want to see ONE doctor (aside from oddity specialist situations), but I want that doctor to have a large case load of patients -- you only get the experience of all that is weird about treating HIV by seeing a lot of patients, it's not just the ID degree framed on the wall.
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Offline MarcoPoz

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Re: HIV Experts Recommend Shifting HIV Care To Primary Care Doctors
« Reply #62 on: May 17, 2011, 04:11:28 pm »
I'm genuinely happy that some here have had decent HIV care from GPs and others who were'nt ID docs.  However, I think its a bad and dangerous trend, especially for those of us who do not have the plethora of provider choices.

I too would rather have ONE care provider, but, as a LTSr, my medical needs are legion it seems sometimes, and beyond the expertise of one provider.  Currently I am able to utilize my ID doc as a 'primary'.  I think this is a good model.  I'd rather have an ID decide what was and wasn't related to HIV and make required referrals, instead of some GP trying to figure out what was HIV related and what wasn't.

But what the hell do I know--I just started on xanax  :o 

 


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