Re:Doctors, Revolt
by fucking_tragedy on Saturday February 24, 2018 @09:14PM
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To add to this anecdote, I lived in the suburbs of a major city for quite some time. My primary care doctor's practice was in the city at a prestigious hospital.
The care I received at that hospital was a night and day difference compared to what I received in the suburbs.
My favorite experience was the time I was very sick, went to a doctor in the suburbs and was told I was absolutely fine, despite the coughing, difficulty breathing, looking like I was dying, chest pain and X-ray results. I was sent on my way without even a script for antibiotics.
The next day, I went to see my PCP who demanded the names of the doctors responsible for letting a patient with severe pneumonia leave their care without proper treatment. Said if I waited another day, I'd have to be hospitalized.
Your father's town's hospital only has 1 doctor? HN is pretty American-centric but I'm curious if that's in what is considered a developed nation?
Re:Doctors, Revolt
by candiodari on Sunday February 25, 2018 @02:02AM
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I don't know for sure, but probably he means the primary care physician, not a hospital team.
If you live in a town where smart and educated people like to live, you get the cream of the crop of doctors. It's very different from living in a backwater where ambitious young people aspire not to live. And most of the world lives in backwaters, with unexceptional doctors who make simple but deadly mistakes when they go off script.