Unfortunately, by participating in this community (LW/etc.), we’ve disqualified ourselves from asking Scott to be our doctor (should I call him “Dr. Alexander” when talking about him-as-a-medical-professional while using his alias when he’s not in a clinical environment?).
I concur with your comment about having trouble finding a good doctor for people like us. p(find a good doctor) is already low and difficult given the small n (also known as the doctor shortage). If you combine p(doctor works well with people like us), the result may rapidly approach epsilon.
Unfortunately, by participating in this community (LW/etc.), we’ve disqualified ourselves from asking Scott to be our doctor (should I call him “Dr. Alexander” when talking about him-as-a-medical-professional while using his alias when he’s not in a clinical environment?).
I concur with your comment about having trouble finding a good doctor for people like us. p(find a good doctor) is already low and difficult given the small n (also known as the doctor shortage). If you combine p(doctor works well with people like us), the result may rapidly approach epsilon.
It seems that the best advice is to make n bigger by seeking care in a place with a large per capita population of the doctors you need. For example, by combining https://nccd.cdc.gov/CKD/detail.aspx?Qnum=Q600 with the US Census ACS 2013 population estimates (https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?t=Counts,%20Estimates,%20and%20Projections%3APopulation%20Total&g=0100000US%240400000&y=2013&tid=ACSDT1Y2013.B01003&hidePreview=true&tp=true), we see that the following states had >=0.9 primary care doctors per 1,000 people:
District of Columbia (1.4)
Vermont (1.1)
Massachusetts (1.0)
Maryland (0.9)
Minnesota (0.9)
Rhode Island (0.9)
New York (0.9)
Connecticut (0.9)