Moss WizardMar 18
Lol I can’t get a primary care doctor at any “real” clinic in #PDX or any city within reasonable driving distance, so I use Zoomcare for primary. Every few months they change their policies about which of their employees and locations is allowed to be a “primary care”. Today I miraculously got the same PC as last year, at a nearby location—but on arrival they told me I would have to make separate appointments *on separate days* for each different concern I wanted to inquire about. For example I couldn’t get a prescription renewed on the same day I get an annual exam. *jazz hands* #healthcare!
Show threadahimsaMar 19

@Moss My family and friends have all had a hard time finding primary care doctors in the Portland area. And then I read news articles like this one (about doctors who take medicare) so I know it's not just me -

https://www.wweek.com/news/health/2026/03/10/new-data-shows-its-particularly-hard-to-find-a-primary-care-doctor-in-portland/

But I did NOT know that some doctors would not even renew a prescription at the same appointment for another issue! WTF?

Anyway, I'm so sorry you're going through this.

#PDX #Portland #Healthcare

New Data Shows It’s Particularly Hard to Find a Primary Care Doctor in Portland

“If I were a leader at the state level, at the local level, I would be really interested in trying to understand why Portland is such an outlier.”

Willamette Week
Show threadPete's Mom 🍉 🇺🇦 ☮️Mar 22
@ahimsa_pdx @Moss
The "one issue per appointment" garbage should be illegal. Its not just anti science (our body parts work together to make our body function) it drastically increases costs of just trying to receive basic care: transportation, childcare, missed work, all on top of copays and coinsurance bs AND appointments are often months apart 🤬🤯
Show threadMoss Wizard
@Petesmom @ahimsa_pdx 1000% agreed. And in fact they finally did agree to let me handle *one* extra issue at my exam because they could mark it as “preventative care”, but only after I said out loud that this restriction seemed illegal.
Mar 22 at 9:33pmWeb