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During your most recent appointment, about how much time did you spend with your main T1D health care provider?
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It was so long ago, I don’t remember…
11 minutes. And he told me I needed to find someone else to split the two reasons I see him because it “takes too long” covering both
=:o Yikes!
30-40 minutes, but most of the time I was waiting for the Doctor to come into the room.
The waiting time doesn’t count as time with the doctor.
I’m not shy about asking questions. I always feel that I get as much time as I need.
I just had a consultation with a perspective endo, she spent over an hour with me! Amazing. And, she is fantastic, to boot! Hired!
It was over 20 minutes but since my Endo has me so well Regulated (A1c 5.4 – 5.6) even Medicare is allowing a Visit every 4 Months. Dex 6 and Tandem CIQ is my Cure!
CIQ is da bomb!
😀
I believe if you have good control and your A1C’s prove it, maybe 10 to 20 minutes is enough. My A1C’s are in the high 5’s / low 6’s so my session is usually complete within minutes tops, but there are probably other patients that should require a little more time from their endo to get them on a ‘well managed’ A1C path.
My primary care is managed at a teaching facility. My endocrinologist manages the diabetes.
I do ask them to also help keep watch for neuropathy in my lower extremities. So far so good!
Normally 10-15 min, but it was 20-30 min this last time. First time meeting the new diabetes nurse assigned during COVID in person. Previous encounters all via Zoom. It was nice to meet her in 3D!
My A1C is normally in the 5 to 6 range also, but I am lucky to have an Endo who answers any questions I may have and discourse on new technologies. He also checks my feet and eyes. He spends up to 40 minutes with me. I have been T1D for 59 years and have been through a pregnancy (hellish) also. I still have many questions about this disease and it’s effects on the rest of my body as I am very active.
My usual length is 30 to 40 minutes but she also manages my Hashimoto’s and go over ortho and neurology notes while I’m there. Honestly I don’t know what I will do when she retires, which will be in the next couple of years. I’ve been with her since 1989.
40-50 for me. It was a new-patient initial consult visit, so longer than I’d normally need.
My provider spends at least 40 minutes with me. I never feel rushed.
Brand new Endo, and new to us. Just under 20 minutes. We are almost ten years in with our, soon to be eleven year old, son. She just said it looked like we knew what we were doing, then gave us scripts we needed and lab orders. Indicated that ADA recommends appointments every three months. We said we were accustomed to every 4-5 months, and that was that.
I didn’t have a stopwatch out, but it was about 12 to 15 minutes. There was a lot to go over (new devices, etc.). I probably got everything I needed, but, for some reason, I always feel rushed at this office.
My beloved endocrinologist died and was replaced by a much younger one. I have only met in person with her once. For 52 years, the first thing in all of my appointments was to check my feet. when I asked this younger doc if she were going to, she seemed almost offended. Is this not something the new generation of endocrinologists do anymore?
Always around 30 min. Adjusting pumps, asking questions, looking over Dexcom reports, figuring out changes, how I feel, what has changed, on and on. My doctor is a very detailed and thorough doctor I respect.
Spent 20 minutes with nurse parctioner and 10 with Doctor, tag team
Less than 10 min by choice. Nothing to talk about with stable labs, 95% time in range, and an A1c of 5.8.
Congrats on those awesome results, Amanda Barras!! 🙂
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This one was longer because she insisted on giving my daughter four antibody tests. She doesn’t understand how we can have a Type 1 15 year old with a 5.0 and 0% lows. I gave her an entire PowerPoint on how we eat, dose, and explained that we follow Dr Bernstein so my daughter is not an anomaly—everyone that follows Dr Bernstein has normal non-diabetic a1cs. My daughter failed all of her antibody tests horribly—as expected!
Less than 10 minutes. Very unusual but that was the last one.