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I love my PCP's office staff, nursing staff, PAs and my PCP.
He went from being a doc in a box to owning 2 practices [he alternates days which office he is in] with a full compliment of PAs and office staffing, the computers are linked so either office can access them. He prefers to keep you assigned to one of the 2 offices, and one specific PA but you can see anybody in either office if you need an emergency that day appointment [for something that is not serious to send you to the ER] and he has his own testing lab in each office, a digital xray for small stuff so you don't have to go to some other facility and each office is within a block of a hospital just in case you need something more extreme. He has the program that will print out the hard copy of a prescription or it can fax it to your pharmacy and when his office tells you it will phone in/fax the prescription over, it is dome immediately. You rarely have more than a 10 minute wait for an appointment unless something has seriously gone wrong in someone elses exam, but the staff never seem hurried, they always are very personally attentive. [he also specializes in spanish speaking staffers, which is nice for recent immigrants who haven't gotten a handle on english yet.] They use some sort of dictation program and they do the case notes immediately in office instead of sending them out to a transcriptionist.
And as an addition, I have a medicalert bracelet with a USB thingy that holds medical data - it was like $15US and I got it from IIRC Walter Drake online.
He went from being a doc in a box to owning 2 practices [he alternates days which office he is in] with a full compliment of PAs and office staffing, the computers are linked so either office can access them. He prefers to keep you assigned to one of the 2 offices, and one specific PA but you can see anybody in either office if you need an emergency that day appointment [for something that is not serious to send you to the ER] and he has his own testing lab in each office, a digital xray for small stuff so you don't have to go to some other facility and each office is within a block of a hospital just in case you need something more extreme. He has the program that will print out the hard copy of a prescription or it can fax it to your pharmacy and when his office tells you it will phone in/fax the prescription over, it is dome immediately. You rarely have more than a 10 minute wait for an appointment unless something has seriously gone wrong in someone elses exam, but the staff never seem hurried, they always are very personally attentive. [he also specializes in spanish speaking staffers, which is nice for recent immigrants who haven't gotten a handle on english yet.] They use some sort of dictation program and they do the case notes immediately in office instead of sending them out to a transcriptionist.
And as an addition, I have a medicalert bracelet with a USB thingy that holds medical data - it was like $15US and I got it from IIRC Walter Drake online.
Whoa, lady thanks for the illustration of how annoying complainers are, especially in confined spaces! 
I also bit my lip so I didn't tell her to shut up, because I'd been there since 7:02. It took an hour and 15 minutes for me to get processed. Oh well, them's the breaks sometimes...
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