Re: Michael Jamison’s Dec. 18 commentary, “Physician lists his HMO concerns�:
I cannot easily say how delighted I was to read Dr. Jamison's article. After very disappointing treatment — or non-treatment — from two cardiologists, I felt that a change was needed.
The first of the two could not make sensible appointments, and at the first meeting, I was kept waiting an hour for the first appointment after lunch.
The second one never gave any results of any tests. It took me six months to have tests done because of swollen legs, and then I had to ask my general practitioner to contact him for the results. He had to ask twice before any results came through.
On one visit, he asked in a rather perfunctory manner if “there was anything else.� I tried to tell him that I’d had some difficulty with breathing, but all the time that I was trying to say that, he talked through me and over me about matters not connected with my heart condition.
I changed to Dr. Jamison — and what a change it was! He put me through a series of tests that revealed conditions, which, had they been done by one of the previous cardiologists, might have been curable. I changed too late! But Dr. Jamison has put me on a course of treatment that makes things better than they might have been, and at least, I know what is wrong and why.
He is a man who lives up to his beliefs and practices what he preaches. Would that there were more doctors like him!
— Donald Beswick, Camarillo
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