question about looking for a new doctor

[ravena_kade]

Back in June I had a Deep. I have since found that my Doctor has left the country. No one from the medical center has gotten back to me about follow ups to see if the procedure did what it was supposed to do. I don't know what my next step is. I assume a PAP is needed but my insurance usually only pays for 1 PAP a year and it must be after the

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[prettybrownsid]

Have you contacted the doctors office? They have to have finished what ever lab work they were doing before the doctor left. And I think OB/GYNs are the only ones that specialize in women's reproductive health.

[archangelbeth]

If the doctors that are accepting patients are in a general practice, then they should be capable of at least semi-routine care of vaginas, menopausal or not, and be able to refer you to specialists (which can usually make insurance cough up something, or at least put it on the deductible). I'd at least start calling them up and saying that you need to know if your LEEP worked, but your doctor has gone AWOL.

I'd say, try to get a new doctor, and then have them request your medical records. If they can't get the medical center to cough up your records, you tromp down there personally and say, "I have changed doctors. Give me my medical records." They may try to charge you for photocopying them; I do not know for sure, but you may be able to say, "NOPE! I want the originals! You copy them for your files if you want, but no one's gotten back to me after my LEEP and no one sent the files to my new doctor, so I'm gonna sneakernet the originals over. No copying needed