I know some of you work in medical fields. I am hoping that you can offer me another perspective on this situation.
I had my 2nd child in march of 2010. A pap smear was part of the 6 week check up in April 2010. I opted to wait on using BC because of breastfeeding. I put off going in for BC until February of 2011. The Dr. gave me a script for 15 months of BC without an exam because insurance would not pay for another one until a full year had passed. Dr. said at my age missing one annual is no biggie.
My pharmacy will not fill scripts for longer than 12 months without the patient getting a new script from the Dr. When the 12th month arrived, I received an e-mail from pharmacy stating that they have contacted my Dr. to renew the script and he agreed. He wrote a script for another 15 months.
I have had other concerns about this Dr. before. I am concerned that they are just giving out BC without an exam for almost 3 years. I thought that BP needed to be monitored and that pap smears were important. Should I report this Dr.? Should I demand an exam? I am extremely careful about any medications that I take and it makes me nervous to keep taking BC without a check up.
I had my 2nd child in march of 2010. A pap smear was part of the 6 week check up in April 2010. I opted to wait on using BC because of breastfeeding. I put off going in for BC until February of 2011. The Dr. gave me a script for 15 months of BC without an exam because insurance would not pay for another one until a full year had passed. Dr. said at my age missing one annual is no biggie.
My pharmacy will not fill scripts for longer than 12 months without the patient getting a new script from the Dr. When the 12th month arrived, I received an e-mail from pharmacy stating that they have contacted my Dr. to renew the script and he agreed. He wrote a script for another 15 months.
I have had other concerns about this Dr. before. I am concerned that they are just giving out BC without an exam for almost 3 years. I thought that BP needed to be monitored and that pap smears were important. Should I report this Dr.? Should I demand an exam? I am extremely careful about any medications that I take and it makes me nervous to keep taking BC without a check up.
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