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Longer waits, less time actually s. pent with you, less personalized attention. Everybody loses.
Doctors Revolt...!
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Longer waits, less time actually s. pent with you, less personalized attention. Everybody loses.
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You must be talking about the current system - cause long waits and no time spent with patients is now.
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I hear that 9 out of 10 of them live off of kickbacks for recommending Crest Toothpaste.
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I wonder what they would do iif they had to treat people instead of just writing prescriptions.
They just closed the only doc in a box we had nearby. Now we have to go to this so called "intermediate care" and pay $100 plus for 5 minutes. It would have been $140 but somehow they thought I qualified for some type of Medicare discount. If selling Medicare plans qualifies me for these discounts I should use it more often.Ours is worse than seeing the regular doc.
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Can these 24-hour neighborhood care centers save your life in an emergency, like a hospital emergency room? You drive over to one of these because you're puking green stuff due to a ruptured spleen. Can they diagnose this properly and remove the spleen?
I feel a lot of people will suffer additional complications (or worse) because they went to a neighborhood center first, instead of the E.R., where all the medical resources are located.
I feel a lot of people will suffer additional complications (or worse) because they went to a neighborhood center first, instead of the E.R., where all the medical resources are located.
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I have often wondered the same thing. My thoughts were a soccer mom taking lil Johnny for a sports injury ie spranged ankle ect. But yeah I feel sorry for the person with serious I internal issues going there first vs the ER.
Not to be overly sympathetic to doctors, but there has to be a logical reason for the way they run their practice. They have to see 20-30 patients a day at 10 mins a pop and they still end up making JUST 250k to 300k per year. Its rare to find a medical professional that breaks the 500k barrier without being a top level surgeon at a hospital. The average PCP is struggling to maintain his practice and see his patients in a halfway helpful manner. Specialists have fewer patients and have to do a lot of specialized testing in order to earn a decent income. Despite appearances, I think doctors are struggling income wise. Its gotta get worse for them after 2014. More patients and less money.
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I think many Dr's (like the one mentioned in the OP)...WILL form their own groups...and work like that. They will make the same money...and give better care to their patients. The Patients who can't afford private Med.Groups will be stuck.
Supposedly there is such a shortage of Dr's that Nurse Practitioners will take over much of the work that Dr.'s did.
Wonderful!
Supposedly there is such a shortage of Dr's that Nurse Practitioners will take over much of the work that Dr.'s did.
Wonderful!
Actually, a good nurse practitioner may be better than a lot of doctors. Because someone is a CFP doesn't make than a better financial person or even more knowledgeable than someone who is not. In fact if all you have is an infection or a sprain a nurse practitioner may be all one needs.
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