Fun with med students!

I had my appt with Dr. Skinner (my pcp) yesterday, which was most fun.  Because Maricopa Medical Center and the clinics associated with it are the county hospital, they are also a teaching facility.  Because I am lucky enough to be considered clinically interesting, on occasion we see a new med student or new resident so they can learn some stuff.  The last time this happened, we spent quite a lot of time talking about POTS and MEN 1 and all that fun stuff, mind you I had made the appt because I had a UTI.  Anyways, Dr. Skinner had a med student following her yesterday and we chatted with him a little, giving the run down of why we have to see her every 4 weeks otherwise everything would fall apart.  He was a nice guy and seemed very entertained by our relationship with Dr. Skinner, the teasing back and forth and Laurie discussing the fact that I torture her when I get things caught in my throat and breathe funny.  (She is sure that I'm going to aspirate something at some point, which I'm not entirely convinced of.)  The appt with a newbie couldn't be complete without listening to my heart and playing "guess that defect".  (He didn't guess.)  Anyway, we walked out of the appt with about a hundred referrals to different docs to cover the whole esophagus thing, the thyroid nodule biopsy, and of course the referral to go see the county endocrinologist because we are definitely not going back to Mayo.  We'll see how things go... In a perfect world I would go see someone who actually knows stuff about MEN 1 but alas we'll take it step by step.  Also, Dr. Skinner's going to write me the medical clearance I need to go to Chile in May for the wedding - yay!