We’ve been lucky here as well. Two nursing schools right in town (community college and university and this is a smaller town), a dental hygienist’s school and the Universities of Oregon and Washington medical schools supplying interns and PNWU just up the road. Quite a few foreign doctors also (I have one now), but no problems to report. I don’t generally hear complaints about the urgent care clinics here, but still am not looking forward to Obamacare, in fact I dread it.
Should have gone right to St. Peters in New Brunswick.
Two quick stories. Today my 81 year old father went for his chemo treatment. He will need an additional pet scan in April to make sure he is in remission. Doc says pet scan is 6k and doesn’t think insurance will cover it. My dad asks why. Doc says there is no ROI for insurance company. Then says, “my liberal patients aren’t enjoying this.”
So my son comes home from hockey camp last summer. His leg is swollen. While there he developed staph and they put him on anti biotics. From the airport I take him to doc in the box. Doc says yep, staph and gives him stronger antibiotics and tells him to continue on the ones he got in Canada. No big deal.
Couple of days later, he is getting ready for practice and I look at his leg. I just about puke. Take him to hospital. Next night they operated. Doc said one more day and he would have lost the leg.
3 weeks later results from doc in the box comes in.