More Doctors Hanging It Up

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jaminhealth

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Retirement is one thing, but many are frustrated long before retirement age.

I had a wonderful D.O. from in my 30's to later 60's and he worked into his 90's, went into office for some patients to keep in touch with the medical world he grew up with. His life was long before the medical corporations and profits profits profits. He made enough money in his lifetime but today....yikes...
 

My primary care physician whom I have been going to for many years is leaving her practice and branching out into a "think whole person clinic". I just found out she is leaving. I think because she didn't feel like she "fit" with the office she was working in.

The doctor's office wanted to know if I was staying or following her to her new clinic. How am I supposed to know? She said nothing to me about leaving when I had my last office visit a couple of days ago. I know nothing of this new clinic where she will be practicing. It's very frustrating.

I did like her as a doctor, but frankly, I feel like I'm being dumped on.
 
Uptosnuff said:
My primary care physician whom I have been going to for many years is leaving her practice and branching out into a "think whole person clinic". I just found out she is leaving. I think because she didn't feel like she "fit" with the office she was working in.

The doctor's office wanted to know if I was staying or following her to her new clinic. How am I supposed to know? She said nothing to me about leaving when I had my last office visit a couple of days ago. I know nothing of this new clinic where she will be practicing. It's very frustrating.

I did like her as a doctor, but frankly, I feel like I'm being dumped on.
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I see only integrative MD's since about 15 yrs now...and just mentioned to my doc at last visit "hope you don't leave your practice" I don't know what I'd do.

I want to be with an MD who is open to the WHOLE BODY healing and not just slapping drugs down my throat...nope not for me. I do so much of my own healing as there is so much for us to grasp on the worldwide net and Dr. Google.


I can just see it, the longtime D.O. I saw for 30 some yrs, sitting there TRYING to play with the computer as it's done today...MD's spend more time with those machines than they spend with their patients face to face. Tragic and very sad sick care.
 
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There is a looming crisis in Primary Care. Less than 5% of today's med students plan to enter PC....they can make far more money entering a Specialty. Within the next decade, if not sooner, a person may need to make an appointment to see a family doctor weeks in advance....or go to an Emergency Room at the hospital. Unless there are some Major changes....and soon...half the GP's will probably be coming from places like India.
 
Don M. said:
There is a looming crisis in Primary Care. Less than 5% of today's med students plan to enter PC....they can make far more money entering a Specialty. Within the next decade, if not sooner, a person may need to make an appointment to see a family doctor weeks in advance....or go to an Emergency Room at the hospital. Unless there are some Major changes....and soon...half the GP's will probably be coming from places like India.
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Isn't that pretty much the way it is now?

Primary care doc's are much a-kin to traffic cops.....for this go there, for that go there, etc. They seem to treat next to nothing. They take your vitals, report your vitals.....then suggest?.....this or that lifestyle change , maybe prescribe meds.
 
rgp said:
Isn't that pretty much the way it is now?Primary care doc's are much a-kin to traffic cops.....for this go there, for that go there, etc. They seem to treat next to nothing. They take your vitals, report your vitals.....then suggest?.....this or that lifestyle change , maybe prescribe meds.
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Yeah, the few times I've been to the doctor in recent years, I can get far better information by spending a few minutes on the internet, searching for any symptoms I might be having. If a person has a bathroom scale, and a blood pressure monitor, they can have most of what a PCP does for them.
 
i had a doctor for 20 years and he was great---he didnt have you running all over the place---the doctor i have now gets all her information off the computer--- she sends a nurse in to take blood from my arm and she didnt know how to do it so they sent someone else in to show her--i hope she never has to get blood from me
 
The day of the family GP has pretty much come and gone. Here in my area, most doctors belong to one of the two integrated healthcare systems.

One of my worse days was when my Doc retired.
 
The hospital in my community is closing despite protests from residents. They shut down the ER this past March. :mad:
 
The following is a little off topic, so please excuse me. I often had to take a suspected DUI driver to the hospital for a BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) test. We would take the driver straight into the ER where I could see patients had been waiting for a long time. On my last visit, I asked the waiting patient if she had been waiting long. She told that it’s now been 7 hours and she has only been triaged.

Thankfully, emergency responders, such as the police, did not have to wait. We would be taken care of immediately, unless they were busy working on a patient that was brought in by ambulance.

I mentioned to the ER nurse that a patient in the waiting room told me that she has been here for 7 hours. The nurse didn’t really seem to care, but she did tell me that 2 of the 5 doctors were off and 1 of the 3 P A’s were also off. Just goes to show you that the medical field has openings.
 
oldman said:
The day of the family GP has pretty much come and gone. Here in my area, most doctors belong to one of the two integrated healthcare systems.

One of my worse days was when my Doc retired.
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A few years back a friend of mine moved to a small town , out in the 'breadbasket' / the plains . He & the wife grew up in small towns, and wanted to return to that lifestyle.

In this town there is an honest GP....Hospital is some 20/mi away.

My friend says that the 'new' doc listened to all his / her concerns, took them off their [at that time] current meds. Started them on two basic 'new' meds, and suggested they might try a few vitamins.

My friend states that both he & the wife feel better than they have in sometime.

Was the move the 'ticket'? or the change in medical care? He's not sure, only knows it to be so.

I asked him if he had a room for rent.......:)
 
rgp: You do know that there is a nutritional supplement(s) for just about Everything we can be addressing. If a bacterial infection is horrific, then a abx drug for sure.

I stopped the major toxic drugs 25 yrs ago and worked to address everything that came my way with supplements. If only the G.D. surgeon hadn't messed up the hip replacement....I'd be in such a good good place in my life.

Your friends got a wake up call from a smart doctor sounds like.
 

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