My shout-out this week is not art, craft, or book-related, but very Baltimore and close to me. I never had health insurance growing up, and even the student insurance I was able to purchase in college was always a little shoddy. (This is one of those hot-button topics for me, how stupid our healthcare system is, and that’s another post, another day.) So when I was offered this job back in 2008, my first thought after the whoa-new-job-excitement was whoa–health insurance! Good, fancypants, gold-plated health insurance! I remember my mom getting a little teary-eyed when I showed her not my cool new magnetic ID badge, but my Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO insurance card. Talk about a telling glance.
Anyway, I never had health insurance, and the idea of finding a doctor and keeping them, and having just one person to call up when I was actually sick instead of waiting an illness out, holy-crapola it was awesome. Even a little overwhelming because it was all pretty foreign to me. My shout-out today goes to Mercy Hospital and their amazing women-focused healthcare. Given some of my current circumstances, I am seeing 2 doctors and my primary physician there, and I couldn’t be happier with the care I’ve received. Last month I was curled up in bed with terrible pains and body-ouchies and was able to get in to see my doc within a couple hours. Is this real life??? This week I needed to make another appointment and they were able to accommodate my commute–a 5:30 pm appointment! Where am I? Health care heaven? On top of that, their administrative staff is friendly, helpful, and super responsive. It also helps that I can walk there too.
So lady-readers (well I guess they do treat men of course) in Baltimore, if you’re looking for a new doctor or specialist or something and don’t know where to go, I’m happy to give you my doc’s number.
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