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"There are good checklists and bad"
Just in case anyone else is trying to remember what routine medical care looks like, here's the list I made for me, X, J, and Kit of checkups one or more of us might want to schedule now that the adults are vaccinated and dropping covid numbers are making it safer for Kit to go out as well:
General physical + bloodwork (including annual review of meds for interactions and needed changes)
Eyes
Ears/nose/throat
Teeth
Shoulders
Arms/hands
Back
Knees
Feet
Skin
Cardio
Pulmonary
Neuro
Psych
Sleep
Allergy
Endocrine
Gastro
Colorectal
Gyno/urogenital
Chest-o-gram
Medical/assistive device maintenance/replacement
Also regular personal care:
Therapy
PT/personal training/gym
Massage
Mani/pedi
Depilation
Haircut
Dietitian/nutritionist
You might want to schedule one or more of those too! And let me know if I missed anything...
General physical + bloodwork (including annual review of meds for interactions and needed changes)
Eyes
Ears/nose/throat
Teeth
Shoulders
Arms/hands
Back
Knees
Feet
Skin
Cardio
Pulmonary
Neuro
Psych
Sleep
Allergy
Endocrine
Gastro
Colorectal
Gyno/urogenital
Chest-o-gram
Medical/assistive device maintenance/replacement
Also regular personal care:
Therapy
PT/personal training/gym
Massage
Mani/pedi
Depilation
Haircut
Dietitian/nutritionist
You might want to schedule one or more of those too! And let me know if I missed anything...
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Sometimes more paperwork is needed; for example, insurance generally won't cover physical therapy unless it's prescribed for a diagnosed condition, so every six months I have to get my doctor to put a new prescription on file with both the PT office and my insurance company. The spinal specialist wanted me to get an MRI, and insurance makes you get an X-ray first before they'll cover the MRI, just in case the X-ray provides sufficient information that the more expensive MRI isn't needed. But when you pay for these high-end plans, a lot of what you're paying for is not needing to jump through hoops, so mostly it just works.
If I want to see a doctor or get a test and my insurance won't cover it, I can pay out of pocket. That's what I do with my therapist; insurance payments for psychotherapy are so stingy that very few therapists take insurance at all. I submit receipts to my insurance company and get reimbursed the amount of that stingy payment.
I'm not seeing all the listed doctors there—that's a combined list for all four of us. But I am seeing nine or ten of them, so I'm glad I can do it without much hassle!
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On the NHS here, you’d have to persuade a GP to refer you and then wait ages, but it would be free, but you’d get whatever was felt to be the most cost-effective way of doing it. Not knocking the NHS, obviously. Weirdly, I do now have private health insurance via my wife, but am nervous about using it in case something goes wrong and we end up having to pay because I made a paperwork mistake.
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Equally, tbh, this would be true of my health insurance. I need a GP’s referral usually to indicate that something is necessary and then the insurance will pay up. I THINK. But I’m an insurance novice.
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I need to book eye tests and dental for me and the kids (opticians are open but our closest one closed down), have a massage next Wednesday, and may chase more physio if actually doing the exercises I have doesn't help me or in particular Conflux.
Thankfully other appts have worked quite well via phone (child mental health services have embraced phone and video appts, as have the sleep clinic).
And even more thankfully, my AZ vaccine appears to have fixed my long Covid. So the chest Xray I had on the same day was a bit redundant, though always good to know my lungs work.
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