Personal Stories

VILLAGE FOR A SEASON

The older I get the more I understand proverbs and other sayings.  Experience continues to provide more depth and understanding. Life leads to new revelations about old expressions. Living results in seasonal changes beyond spring, summer, fall, and winter. Due to loss, often from death, we have our village for only a season. Maya Angelou.…

Open Enrollment

It’s open enrollment time! This is the time of year when individuals buy, renew, or change their health insurance. If you don’t have insurance through your employer, Medicare or Medicaid, you can purchase health insurance from the Marketplace. The federal government enacted the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also called Obama care, to increase access to…

Please Don’t Retire!

More and more each year, I worry that my Primary Care Provider (PCP) will retire.  There is a shortage of them as well as other specialists for many reasons including that pay has not kept of with the cost of living, heavy workload and burnout leading to early retirement or transition away from patient care,…