We went into the appointment on the assumption that we were interviewing her to decide if we wanted to switch over to her -- even though things are tight, we still don't intend to just jump on the first doctor who has an opening -- while she was interviewing us to see if she thought she could give us the care we need. But before we were there too long it seemed clear to me that it was a good match.
She has an attitude towards "alternative medicine" which I think is spot on: suspicion but not complete refutation. What I would say about it is, everything used to be alternative medicine once, but over time, the stuff that worked got gradually understood and became just "medicine." We probably haven't finished that process: there are no doubt still discoveries to be made. But at the same time, everything that hasn't made the move from folk remedy and superstition to scientific medicine has had a lot of chances to do so over the last few thousand years, so while some of it has something to it we haven't identified yet, more of it is bunkum. The proper attitude is to be neither credulous nor closed-minded but simply skeptical.

She also is familiar with bariatric medicine, though not with the particulars of the MGB, but enough to seem entirely comfortable with doing the follow-ups that our doctor in North Carolina demands. In fact, it hardly even seemed like a question.
We're scheduled for a complete annual physical in May, and Cigna already switched us over to the new doctor, so I guess now we just have to tell our old doctors to send over the files. That was a lot more painless than I expected.
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