I want to think a fellow blogger, Carey Potash, for the idea behind this blog. It was him that I got the motivation to write this entry. Thanks man. You're a great father and you do an amazing job with your child with diabetes.

I hate going to my Endocronologist. I can't stand the overcrowdedness, the parking, some of the staff (you know who you are), the blood work (see my post entitled, "Disappointing Endo Visit"), The rookie University medical students, and the list goes on forever.

Granted those young, and hard to understand, medical staff are just doing there job and preparing for a future in a field that will only "benefit" me. But I just get frustrated, whenever I go in to see my doctor, and I have to basically TEACH THEM. And yes, I understand that without them I wouldn't be able to analyze my blood work and urine test results, but nonetheless, I just want to go somewhere where I feel like I can ask the staff, that I AM PAYING GOOD MONEY FOR, a list of questions and not leave there trying to decide if any of it was actually of any help to me. HONESTLY.

I don't know, maybe I am just really selfish? It wouldn't be the first time that anyone has called me that, right Brynn? :)

I want to think that I am not asking to much. I mean, how big of a need is there for physicians specializing in Type 1 diabetes? Are we really so short on them that I would have a very difficult time, even in a city the size of Columbia, to find a really good one? My old doctor, Dr. Goldstein, is a nationally renouned pediatric endocronoligist, and he worked for the University (now "retired"). I was SO lucky to have him as my doctor for all those years growing up. He is an amazing doctor with a very unique ability to work and communicate with his patients. I owe a lot to him.

However, even during my visits with him, I always felt as though their was always more that I could have asked him or talked with him about. It wasn't his fault though, he went beyond the call of duty with his patients, he just had WAY to many patients to see and not enough time. I stay in contact with him still and just recently I shared with him my blog address. He was very happy for me, in his words it was, "VERY COOL!". Now I have the privelage to work with people with diabetes and help them, like he has helped so many people. Why can't their be an abundance of Dr. Goldstein's to go around?
Thanks anyway "Doc" for all that you have done and continue to do for people.

-Andy A.K.A. "Rosco".