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Are you not entertained ... by my A1C?

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Kerri
Jan 29, 2025
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My primary care clinician is solid1. This clinician is for my general health needs, like physical therapy referrals, mental health assessments, vaccine recommendations, and she’d be the office I’d visit for a flu or COVID test. She’s not my go-to for the concerns that carry the most weight, namely diabetes and any reproductive health stuff. I have an endocrinologist that does the diabetes heavy lifting and a OB/GYN who does preventative screenings2 like mammograms and pap smears.

On the whole, she’s great and we (I hope) work well together.

She did go over my labs from the endo’s office with me this week, and upon reviewing my slightly increased A1C, she asked if my endo was happy with that result.

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