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I had a similar situation about 2 yrs ago and asked my best friends dad, who's a paramedic, about it. You have the right to havea second opinion on anything you feel you need to. Go to a walk in or even the emergency and see another dr. Another suggestion that he gave me was that every 10 yrs, you should switch doctors. In some ways i agree because it's a fresh set of eyes so to say looking over you but at the same time a long term family gp knows your family history and your history.

Another suggestion which you may not be able to do for a while yet becaus eof her holidays is to confront her about it.

That's what I did. Ended up explaining a whole lot of things that I had no idea of. His partner in the office was going through extreme chemo therapy at the time and was not in the office therefor passing all his patients onto my dr doubling his workload.

There could be a reason she's going on vacation, you never know. But get a second opinion soon if it concerns you that much. I would personally suggest a walk in or something of the sort instead of the substitute dr. They could feel awkward about it as may your gp.