If I don't have a primary-care doctor, remind me every month until I do, and help me find one in my network who is taking new patients. Once I have one, remind me to see them at least once a year, and never let three years pass, since many practices then treat you as a new patient again. Standing instruction: whenever I mention a new diagnosis, a visit to a specialist, an emergency room or urgent-care visit, a hospital stay, a new or stopped medicine, or a symptom that has lasted more than two weeks, remind me to send my primary-care doctor a short portal message saying what happened and asking whether they need to see me, and draft it for me.