a dilemma...

I hate going to doctors, and as a result, unless I find a doctor that I _really_ like, I simply won't go.

This has led to me joking with the guys at Ortho Indy that they've been my primary care physicians for the last five years, 'cause I'm injured way more often than I'm actually sick. :-/

So I was all excited when a number of the DI recommended Dr. H. I'd met her... I liked her... and she was way the heck on the other side of town, but still basically within a half-hour drive as long as I didn't schedule appointments at rush hour.

Unfortunately, she's now changing practices and once she's settled in her new practice, she's going to be over an hour away.

So now I'm trying to decide... keep seeing Dr. H (assuming she's in-network for my insurance at the new place) and just accept that it's going to take at least two hours, round-trip, every time I go, or try (again) to find somebody that I like who's closer to me?

There are no osteopaths on my side of town who are in-network, so looking for another osteopath isn't an option. The only MD I've seen recently (when he was filling in at the urgent care clinic) isn't currently taking new patients.

It really comes down to which one will cause the least procrastination on my part. Finding a new doc could easily take me several more years, as much as I hate that task. But will I use the distance to Dr. H's new practice as an excuse to "not have time" to make appointments and go?

It's a puzzlement...