I would redirect my anger toward greedy doctors who conveniently forget about the Hippocratic oath they swore to uphold...
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < [email protected]> wrote: > So this morning my unkie posts on FB that he thinks he has pneumonia or > something, calls his doc to come get checked out. His long-time doc left > the place early in the year, some new doc takes the place. Turns out the > new doc took off too, so now he is docless. (He did not check to see why > he did not get notified or turfed off or what, just dropped.) The phone > droid tells him to go to the ER or find a new doc. No docs in town taking > new patients (probably no patients with Medicare or whatever he has). So > he is all bent about that. > > I point out that "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." He > got really upset about that, so I expanded on the comment a bit to tell him > that 1) the practice should not have just ejected him with no notice, 2) > unless they did give notice they are still responsible for him and his care > with whatever doc is still around, 3) probably best to go to the ER or a > doc-in-a-box to deal with the acute issue while sorting out with the > original provider. Also that the med bidness is now pretty much like the > DMV, esp with people like him on Medicare or Obamacare or whatever that > doesn't pay much, despite the desires of the docs actually providing care > to provide care. > > He was a big Obama/Obamacare supporter, now he is finding his dreams were > somewhat misplaced as reality bites his butt (or lungs, in this case). He > lives in a smallish town, I'm sure all the docs there are getting killed by > low reimbursements, and just don't want to deal with the low-end customers. > > --R > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
