Anyone with Kaiser in Bay Area?

Do you have a DS, and go see a Kaiser PCP who is willing to fight for you? 

Does your doctor back off the bariatric people, or roll over and let the Fremont bariatric doctors elbow their way to the trough and then insist you drive to Fremont to see them?

Does your PCP know anything about your DS?

I'm so frustrated with the Fremont Bariatric Center right now.  They elbowed their way between me and my PCP twice, to take over my labs.  Insisting they have it handled and under control.  This morning I go to do my labs and find half the tests not on the list, and no A1C or glucose tests.  Hello?  I'm diabetic!

I emailed the bariatric center that my labs seemed to be all messed up, and she assured me and my PCP that she had it all handled and ordered earlier - so what happened?.  And this witch emails me back.   "I deal with vitamins only.  The rest of it is your PCP's responsibility."  But that's not what she said earlier this week....  I keep getting caught between my PCP and the Fremont Bariatric doctor, and they just point fingers at each other!

It's 1.5 hours drive for me to go to the nearest Kaiser.  I live in Santa Cruz mountains.  I won't drive to Fremont to talk about my labs with the bariatric people - they don't know anything about the DS.  She prescribed me D3 in oil base....   That right there told me she didn't know the basics of my malabsorbtion.

I've change my PCP once already.  The last doctor was totally intimidated by WLS and sent me straight to the Fremont doctor.  My new doctor forwarded my email to the bariatric witch, and she swooped in to crap all over my 6 month labs and screwed those up. 

I need a PCP who will stand up to these people and work with me for my own health issues.  Now, I feel like I'm a tennis ball....

That's odd.  The same office in Fremont remembered my glucose and A1C labs.  I had them done last week.  

You may want to call member services to tell them there's a turf conflict over your care.  Ask them if you could have a case manager who could act at traffic cop.

I thought about contacting member services also.  But thought I would take a survey of other DS people in the bay area first before I took a shot at the Fremont doctor.

From what I have been told, all PCPs in the bay area will refer every WLS patient to Fremont for labs, weight loss, nutrition, on and on.  It's a specialty within Kaiser, and it's another co-pay to collect.  So I'm going to have to interface with the Fremont team no matter what - even when they apparently know little about the DS.