... I know this is stirring the pot....

The Medicus Firm

having known doctors this rings true to me when I consider what they've been saying in the past few years

would anyone here hope their kid would be a doc these days w/all the crapola they already have to deal with?

I miss family docs who make house calls

I miss family docs who had their offices in their houses - so much more comforting than clinic waiting rooms

I miss the days of going to *the* doctor, knowing who it would be each time, always the same doc

going to the doctor sounds more human than going to the clinic - besides, when I was younger going to the clinic had a negative connotation, it meant you were either on welfare or getting a pregnancy test under an alias ;-)

This is a company that recruits physicians, I think. I don't understand how this Web site relates to your comments. Maybe I didn't read enough in the Web site.

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I read their page about the results of the survey they commisioned and it got me to thinking about how complicated the doc/patient/insurer relationship has become. It made my age show as I got wistful about *olden days* ;-)

Ah the good old doctor days they are long gone, while I am basically happy with the doctors me and my family use things certaintly have changed. When I was small there was only one doctor in fact he was my moms doctor and he was scary, he looked like the scary actor who played dracula I cannot think of the actors name now. However his name was Dr.Vladmir Gold and his assisant /nurse was his scary sister name Saddie by the time we all went they both were in their late sixites. However I will say this , you never had to call to make a appointment, you just went to his scary old office and waited in his old waiting room. He spoke with a heavy Bulgarian Accent yet whatever was wrong with you, he examined you and prescriped medicine and you always felt better . Now you first have to call and wait for the nurse to call you back to let you know if you can come in and sometimes you must wait days , it really it hard sometimes. Peace. Catherine

hmmmm....I guess we are in the minority.
Barring extreme circumstances--we do get to see the same MD everytime.
While our doctor doesn't do housecalls---it's nothing for me to call or email and get an answer or get a prescription called in. For example: Oldest DS fell, and we thought he broke his hand. Of course, x didn't think to take him to the MD, and didn't tell me that anything had happened (that's another story) so by the time I got home we had to go to Urgent Care--they splinted it and said f/u w/ Orthopedics. Didn't get any pain meds. 2 days letter, the kiddo is hurting pretty badly. I called his MD and they called him in some pain meds....
Our MD is great!

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I see the same DR. everytime or I can ask to schedule an appt. with the P.A.-C
She is so nice. It does take a long time to get in if your ailment is not serious, otherwise it is about a 2-3 hr wait if you wait in the office. They usually tell you a time to come back though. The urgent care is only from 5pm-9pm now.

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I count myself pretty lucky with my Doctors. My GP and Surgeon. They are both very nice, easy to talk to and listen to me. Now to only find a good dentist... *sigh*

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I recently made a Dr appt and was asked why I was coming in. I explained I just got my insurance and that I have a list of things I need to talk about. She told me to "prioritize" as I would only have half an hour. I was so stunned I didn't know what to say. I made the appt then the next day (yesterday) I called back and told her to book me two appts in a row as I consider my health to be important and I don't want to be treated like I am going through the drive through window at McDonald's. She bitchily asked "so you don't think half an hour is enough?" And I explained that after taking my blood pressure and all the standard things they do no it wasn't. She grudgingly booked me two appt in a row and I am not sure if they're charging me for two appts. I was mad as hell and I feel for those who don't think of booking two appts in a row or don't feel confident enough to mention it.
I don't blame the Doctors they are being run basically by the HMOs which by the way were endorsed by Richard Nixon as a way to save money and deny people healthcare so as to make a profit for the big insurance companies.

Here is a transcript of the recording (remember Tricky Dicky was so paranoid he recorded EVERYTHING)

John D. Ehrlichman: “On the … on the health business …”
President Nixon: “Yeah.”
Ehrlichman: “… we have now narrowed down the vice president’s problems on this thing to one issue and that is whether we should include these health maintenance organizations like Edgar Kaiser’s Permanente thing. The vice president just cannot see it. We tried 15 ways from Friday to explain it to him and then help him to understand it. He finally says, ‘Well, I don’t think they’ll work, but if the President thinks it’s a good idea, I’ll support him a hundred percent.’”
President Nixon: “Well, what’s … what’s the judgment?”
Ehrlichman: “Well, everybody else’s judgment very strongly is that we go with it.”
President Nixon: “All right.”
Ehrlichman: “And, uh, uh, he’s the one holdout that we have in the whole office.”
President Nixon: “Say that I … I … I’d tell him I have doubts about it, but I think that it’s, uh, now let me ask you, now you give me your judgment. You know I’m not to keen on any of these damn medical programs.”
Ehrlichman: “This, uh, let me, let me tell you how I am …”
President Nixon: [Unclear.]
Ehrlichman: “This … this is a …”
President Nixon: “I don’t [unclear] …”
Ehrlichman: “… private enterprise one.”
President Nixon: “Well, that appeals to me.”
Ehrlichman: “Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason that he can … the reason he can do it … I had Edgar Kaiser come in … talk to me about this and I went into it in some depth. All the incentives are toward less medical care, because …”
President Nixon: [Unclear.]
Ehrlichman: “… the less care they give them, the more money they make.”
President Nixon: “Fine.” [Unclear.]
Ehrlichman: [Unclear] “… and the incentives run the right way.”
President Nixon: “Not bad.”

I was trying to find the actual recording which I have listened to before. Can't find it now but the above transcript is accurate.

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