I stopped in at Dr O's office unannounced in April, 2020. I was 'shopping' for a new MDVIP doctor due to moving from Alabama to Florida a month earlier. With COVID front and center, he was available for a sit-down meet-n-greet. By late fall of 2020 I was having a few 'disconnect' symptoms that lasted all of 3-5 seconds. When I went in for my MDVIP assessment after the annual tests at his office, I mentioned the disconnects as he reviewed my 'numbers'. He suggested I see a cardiologist as my numbers with 3 exceptions had gone from good [in the green] in 2019 MDVIP results to 3 yellows and 1 just barely red in late 2020. Naturally the cardiologist had me go through a series of tests that were not conclusive but showed something going on. Finally, through his practice I had a heart catheterization. In the process of trying to get an IV into me at their outpatient surgery center, besides suggesting that I might consider doing the procedure without anesthesia due to being on the 4th or 5th attempt to get the IV in, he also asked me about my symptoms. I told him about the momentary 'disconnects'; his reply was that all people in my age group get confused at times. I WAS NOT CONFUSED. The anesthesiologist who was on-hand nixed the idea of no anesthesia due to being an outpatient center and was the one on the 6th attempt to get the IV to stay in my arm. Minutes later: 95% blockage in LAD discovered and the surgeon told I had an appointment for a stent to be put in within a week's time in a hospital setting. No more mention of confusion! Had Dr Osborn taken the attitude of the cardiac surgeon, chances are I wouldn't be writing this story now.
Another kind of 'normal thing' that Dr O does for his patients is at times he has monthly in-person group chats on various topics. Currently, we are into back health and the book Attia's 'Outlive'. Yes, topics about what Dr O and many of us deal with: back pain. But also a relatively easy read by an interesting writer that is a challenge to the mind/brain [at least my aging brain!], a history lesson kind of, a stroll down memory lane as parts took place at Johns Hopkins, and, well, I'm still reading it!
Patient of Ross Q. Osborn, MD, FAAFP
