Received a call this morning about my annual doctor's appointment, a visit not scheduled until late June. A man identified himself as Adam and said he was calling to tell me that Dr. C., whom I had been seeing there for about 20 years, would not be at my June appointment because he was leaving the practice. He didn't give any reason for his departure, nor did I ask. "Would you like to schedule with another doctor there?" he asked. I said sure. What do I care? I'm pretty sure that Dr. C. is not retiring as yet, and it seems they would have commented about an illness. I thought it was usual for a person's physician to notify his patients that he was leaving, but that may be a courtesy from the past, and probably a doctor's departure has legal ramifications. "Doctor, Lawyer," they're of the same ilk.
Anyway, that particular office causes me such distress just by entering the door or, even before, the parking lot, that I wouldn't mind avoiding it altogether.
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