Lydia Elle decided to skip her annual physical last year. Her daughter was home doing virtual school, and Ms. Elle had little time to run out for an appointment. She also worried about contracting Covid-19 at a doctor’s office.
Now, she’s catching up. After a physical this spring, Ms. Elle has two specialist appointments this month. “Once they let my daughter go back to school, I felt safer to go back to the doctor,” says Ms. Elle, who is 40 years old and lives in Los Angeles. She has also used the time to reassess her care and switch practices, preferring one that integrates specialists under one roof and lets her communicate directly with practitioners.
Many people who avoided appointments earlier in the pandemic are now working to schedule care. But after more than a year, it can be hard to know where to start. Catch-up care has a long to-do list: giving priority to which doctors to visit first, keeping up with new screening guidelines and finding doctors after a pandemic relocation—on top of addressing health problems that have arisen from more than a year of stress and disruption. Here are some strategies for navigating the return to the doctor’s office.
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