I'm glad you could get in to see another provider at the same facility, at least they have all your notes. When pneumonia #4 of 5 hit when my immune system went on permanent holiday, I was at my lung doctor's office on a Monday performing a PFT, feeling like hell. I asked if I could see the doctor, told no, he's on vacation. Nice of him to tell me that when I saw him the previous Friday. Next pneumonia arrives a few weeks later (not having immuneglobin does wonders to your ability to resist infection) and I call the office. Can't see him, he's on hospital rotation for the week. Can I see one of the two other doctors? That would be a new patient intake and would be 30 days out.

That was the second set of doctors that I fired in that town. Found a fantastic lung doctor in El Paso who has never disappointed, except in his insistence that I have a sleep study done which discovered nothing worse than mild apnea and that using a machine would offer little improvement.