Gershfeld decided to launch Love My Provider, which is currently seeking seed funding.
To help them, Gershfeld created Love My Provider, a directory and review site of therapists and other professionals who work with autistic children.
Unfortunately, my provider isn't Prospects.
After calling my provider to turn off service, I tried settling into what was to be an all-day meeting.
I put up with this for a while, then called my provider Plusnet, which sent an engineer.
If I needed help from my provider, then surely I should be able to ring them myself?
In Ms. Waterman's case, her online presence is still alive in an advertisement on an adult services Web site, My Provider Guide.
He was, unlike my provider, vulnerable to the market: he collected the phone, fixed it for a few dollars and delivered it back to me.
I do not have a smartphone but a little Nokia and my provider, O2, tells me there is nothing I can do to block his number.
My mother graciously took on the task of disputing claims, keeping track of bills, requesting approval for a procedure or a drug, and spending countless hours on the phone with my provider.
