Thanks to each and everyone of you that took the time to comment on this website, on my Facebook Wall, and who sent me personal emails regarding the untimely death of our wonderful personal care physicians--Doctor Carlos Chiriboga.
Your kind words give me comfort, and importantly help empower me to move forward.
I already started the search for a new personal care physician. Unlike, last time, I actually know what I am doing this time.. Many of you know it took me 14 months, and 4 physicians to get it right last time around. I am now realizing how little I knew at the time.I now realize, I was asking the wrong questions and looking in the wrong places.
Here are the dumbest questions I asked last time around.
- Do you have patients in your practice that suffer from dementia?
- Are you familiar with the treatments for Alzheimer's and dementia?
- Can you give my mother the kind of care and treatment she is going to need?
I don't have all my questions ready for this time around, but I will by Wednesday when we interview--that is right interview--our first personal care physician.
Here are some of the things I intend to ask.
- Where did you go to medical school?
- How much time did you spend in medical school studying Alzheimer's and dementia?
- Since medical school did you have follow-up training, or have you attended any seminars where you leaned more about Alzheimer's.
- If I walked in here today and told you I suspected my mother was suffering from Alzheimer's what would you do?
- Would you consider giving a person in the early stage of Alzheimer's a combination of Aricept and Namenda?
Sometime soon I am also going to tell you how I found the new candidates. You might be surprised to learn how I did it.
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