I had a Dr appointment about a week ago for a re-check on my slowly mending broken ribs (yeah, what a year).
While I was at the office, I asked my Doc what his opinion was on the whole healthcare reform being shoved down our throats.
My dr. said that in the area we live in there are probably 50 to 60 doctors who are old enough and have the financial means to retire.
He continued to say that if the health care reform passes, most of those Doctors would wash their hands and retire.
He estimated that each of those doctors could have up to 1000 patients or more, even though they may not see that many very often.
If that were the case, and those Doctors retire, there would be up to or more than 60,000 people who would lose their Doctor.
My Doctor then continued to say that this would put undue pressure on primary care DRs like himself, and the chances for him to be sued would be greatly increased....meaning he wouldn’t have the time to make sure to send patients out to run every test whether they needed it or not to cover his butt if by some strange event something went wrong.
He said most of the Doctors in his group have been very concerned about how this will affect the way they run a business and have had frequent meetings about what they will do as far as accepting new patients if what he predicts comes to fruition.
Then he called Obama a communist, and sent me on my way, with another scrip of vicodin since I hace been coughing (coughing + broken ribs = crying like a baby).
I left with a new perspective on the thoughts of how this may be keeping Doctors up at night worrying about their future.
They have long days, some complex problems, office staff management issues, and have to deal with a lot of fruit loops at times. I really admire my Doctor and wish only the best for him and other practitioners.
I hope this march wakes up more
Americans to how dangerous this Obamacare bill really is!!
Sorry to hear about your broken ribs! Prayers going up that they speed up in the healing dept!
“My dr. said that in the area we live in there are probably 50 to 60 doctors who are old enough and have the financial means to retire.”.....
And will even this be safe from future actions of this Congress?
If this travesty of a health bill passes be prepared for mass exodus of US physicians and an influx of FMG’s (Foreign Medical Graduates). The same thing happened in the US military during the Carter years. If you are ill or injured be sure to brush up on your Spanish, Urdu, or Pashtun before you visit your new doktor!
Be very careful of Vicodin. We just started to have it in our narcotic cabinets. The trouble with Vicodin is it has a lot of Acetaminophen (Tylenol) in it. Our livers can only detoxify 4000 mg of it per day. Each Vicodin has 500 mg of Acetaminophen in it. So if you take 2 there is have your daily dose of acetaminophen.
There has been an increase in liver damage which is believed to be due to so many meds with Tylenol in it.
http://aids.about.com/od/miscellaneousmeds/a/vicodin.htm
These dodos in Congress just can’t figure out that Dr. Atlas will shrug.
Wow! Think I’ll list my last copy of “Granny Clampett’s Home Remedies” on E-Bay when that happens. Then I can retire. LOL!
I read your stories and hear many similar stories and the read in the MSM stories saying things like “The AMA supports Obamacare” or “Big pharmaceutical companies strike a deal with Obama” and I think this (MSM story) has got to be TOTAL LIES with absolutely not one shred of truth!
Thx for your story. I can only imagine how concerned physicians are right now.
Very similar conversation to one I had this week with an acquaintance who is a doctor. And yes, he’s going to the march.
My Doctor said the same thing. The unholdy trio, Obama-Reid-Pelosi had better consider the law of unintended consequences. Or maybe it is intended. If we didn't have a health care crisis, Congress is hell-bent on creating one.