Dragging 92 year old Mom back and forth to doctor is ludicrous! I just need a few simple questions answered on a simple benefit form. BTW: this doctor hasn’t done anything constructive or beneficial for Mom in ten years. Take bp, check pulse, stick a thermometer in her mouth, and ask same stupid questions.
If you r not happy with the doctor, change. He should be doing yearly labs on Mom. Especially if she is on certain meds. Like Cholesterol. Her enzymes should be checked. Too high and they cause liver damage.
I was tired of doctors seeing her maybe for an hour, when they would actually keep those appts. Which was only the first one. And she was allegedly under the care of a very fine geriatric psychiatrist.
We needed a longer term eval of our mother at 92, soon to be 93. With dementia. We got a diagnosis which was thorough, exhaustive and eye opening. All of the effing tests, all of them. There is not a day that will pass that I don't have terrible awful guilt about how this was done. But our alternative was quickly becoming removal by sheriff. So...
But I will go to my grave with such awful guilt.
Hugs to you.