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[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Who's out there getting annual physicals?

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Its obviously privilege.

But if you have health insurance, get a primary care doctor. Insurance companies (and even a lot of doctors...) will try to tell you that you don't need it because it makes the insurance companies more money for you to not receive preventative care and doctors are already overworked.

But having a PCP has three major benefits:

  1. Preventative care. Get things checked out once a year. Ask questions during those appointments. Get blood tests. It is much better to identify a calcium deficiency while you can still self-medicate rather than when you start having complications from it and so forth
  2. These days, many/most doctors are part of a larger practice. And those practices will often charge a lot less (and be a lot easier to schedule) for patients who are already under their care. I was fortunate enough that when I needed stitches removed 15-ish years ago that this was explained to me and it cost a LOT less. And it has been similarly useful for "is it a sprain or a fracture" style checks that would have otherwise been a trip to the urgent care and then a referral to the emergency room.
  3. You get to make jokes about having (a) PCP