Doctor recommendations?

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Permalink Reply by Aly Sanchez on January 28, 2008 at 3:25pm

Elizabeth Bretton is good. She doesn't rush through exams and answers questions well. The staff is polite. I had her while on Lovelace. She's a provided for BCBS. Not sure what other networks she belongs to.

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Permalink Reply by cathyray on May 3, 2008 at 10:43am

I have BCBS & a doctor I dearly love, Dr Laura Stern.

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Permalink Reply by Lou on May 29, 2008 at 7:01pm

Dr Sara Loetscher at Presbyterian Family Health on Wyoming near Academy. She usually has a waiting list.

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Permalink Reply by hbl on December 20, 2008 at 6:57am

She is by far the best PCP in this town!!! Takes alot of time with her patients, asks all the right questions and is just delightful to deal with in even the most difficult situations. I would highly reccomend Dr. Loetscher!

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Permalink Reply by Lady Noodle on May 30, 2008 at 1:57am

Funny you should bring up this subject... I'm new to town and just today tried calling Pres (I have their insurance) to get hooked up with a PCP. Woman I talked to says they all close their books to open appointments quite soon after the first of each month. Apparently there are only several slots open for new patients per month. She advised me to call "early in the morning" at the very beginning of the month. Who knew?

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Permalink Reply by W2M on May 30, 2008 at 5:33am

New MD appts are hard to find over all of Albuquerque...

as a nurse, who has been an inpt at all the hosptial groups in ABQ, I recommend Pres the most.
because the issue is more where you might need to go if you need to be in the hospital rather than who the PCP is....
1. avoid UNM: long, long wait times in clinics; ER is super busy, you will be near death before you get out of the waiting room. inpatient stay is ok, but all staff very busy. lots of gay people work here, so any discrimination problems (one of my clients had a nurse who didnt want his boyfriend kissing him) gets slammed down hard (said nurse got a visit from HR very quickly)

2. Lovelace staff are furious with the downward slide of their managment over the last 3 years; it manifests as really bad care, really bad... my GF was discharged post surgery with a fever that she tried to get attention for from nursing, back in within 10 hours with peritonitis. continously had problems with nursing there, even after I said I am a nurse, eyes would roll...

3. Pres is hard to get appts for, and the most expensive of the three groups, so not a place cheaper insurances would like you to go to... Was in ICU once and care was good.. ER crowded, and under construction; no discrimination for the lesbian partner during that stay.

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Permalink Reply by Albuquerque Commentator on June 24, 2008 at 6:01pm

I can attest to the not so near death experience translating to the near death experience that resulted in a weeks hospitalization instead of what could have been just the ER visit at UNM because someone "forgot" I was on fast track and then put me back in the waiting room for 12 hours, and I have a PCP there who never made a bedside visit even when requested by the specialist team that ended up treating me.

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Permalink Reply by Lou on May 30, 2008 at 8:58am

another idea--try a nurse practitioner--I also recommend Pat Conkling at Meadowlark Family Health Care in Rio Rancho.

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Permalink Reply by Amy on May 30, 2008 at 1:04pm

Just in case someone is still looking for a BCBS doc recommendation off this thread - we have BCBS and our primary care doc is the previously-mentioned Dr. Timothy Grenemeyer at the Lovelace Healthcare office on Juan Tabo. I LOVE him. He is extremely caring and his office staff is friendly. Long story, but when I was having some health problems a few years ago, he was the only doc of three that I saw that ordered tests to try to get to the bottom of the problem - turns out I have an endocrine disorder that had gone undiagnosed for years. He is a Dr. of Osteopathy and can do chiropractic manipulation, I've had him work on my back before and he is GREAT. He takes much more of a whole-person approach to treatment than just the here's-some-drugs, treat-em-and-street-em thing you get from a lot of docs.

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Permalink Reply by Scott on June 6, 2008 at 11:28am

Dr. Quito Carr for BCBS and possibly others. Old school doc, very thorough, Stanford Med, etc. and his office is in the Encino Medical Plaza.

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Permalink Reply by Your Sharona on June 6, 2008 at 12:04pm

I currently have Lovelace and I love, love, love Dr. Katherine Pickett at the Northside Medical Center. I-25 and San Mateo, across from Nativo. Never have to wait, easy to get in for appointments, and she takes her time with her patients. They've got labs on site including mammography and specialists in the same building. She also works at the Westside clinic.

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Permalink Reply by bleve on June 6, 2008 at 10:23pm

I would recommend First Choice Community Health Care... they're a community clinic but are currently at the level where their providers actually receive their primary care there. I recently saw Dr. Angela Romero and she was excellent although I was trying to see Dr. Barbara Vall-Spinosa who I had gotten enthusiastic recommendations from a number of people.

They partner with UNMH in a lot of different ways but I think you'll find their doctors are a lot more down to earth and find that they actually listen and converse with you. These two particular doctors are at their North Valley Clinic location but they also have a new Health Commons that recently opened up in the South Valley.

They take a variety of insurances and also don't refuse anyone service even if they don't have insurance... you can pay on a sliding scale. The paper work beauracracy is a headache anywhere but these places can be a breath of fresh air from your large hospital setting.

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