Beyond the Call

My husband and I had already been members of MDVIP when the pandemic struck in 2020. We had grown accustomed to the ease in scheduling appointments and having a doctor who actually remembered our issues and took a proactive role in our health care. Having several family members in health care and hearing firsthand of the traumas being suffered around the country during the pandemic, I decided to drop my membership and add the MDVIP subscription cost to donations to community food and healthcare. For about two years, I bounced around without ever landing on a good family practice doctor -- "no appointments for three months"; "not taking new patients"; " sorry your doctor just left general practice to join a concierge service", etc. Also during this time, I had a knee replacement, something, Dr. Chyna, my MDVIP physician, had long encouraged. At the present time I am fully recovered from replacement of both knees and have returned to a fully active lifestyle, something I am sure would not be the case if Dr. Chyna had not taken the time to talk with me about my knees and the likely direction of my life without this surgery. I have also returned to my MDVIP physician. I consider it a guilty privilege to have this kind of care. My husband is also a patient of Dr. Chyna. We can say without question that for my husband, Dr. Chyna was instrumental in identifying two serious health conditions. Both are being monitored and treated. We might be scratching our heads and wondering about the symptoms, but I suspect strongly that we would not have gotten the early diagnosis for either of my husband's conditions in the routine healthcare system in which we were swimming upstream. We have recommended others to consider MDVIP and only wish the kind of care we receive from Dr. Chyna was available to everyone.