Posted on 01/28/2015 5:10:10 AM PST by Timber Rattler
For more than a half century, residents of a tiny western Mississippi community have counted on Dr. Carrol Landrum’s house calls for their health care.
The sight of Landrum’s dented, black, 2007 Toyota Camry pulling up has brought relief to countless shut-ins in Edwards, a town of about 1,000 about 28 miles west of Jackson. But the state medical board is probing the country doctor, an 88-year-old World War II veteran, because, he says, they don’t like him working out of his car.
“I didn’t know there was any law against it,” Landrum, who grew up in Taylorsville, but has practiced medicine in Edwards since 1959, told FoxNews.com.
Landrum said Andrew Pitts, an investigator for the board, told him the board objects to him writing prescriptions out of his car and has been monitoring him for months, tracking all of his visits.
“He said the director had told him to ask me to surrender my license right then and there or I would come before the board,” said Landrum. “And he said basically, ‘If you surrender it here, nobody would know about it. But if it goes to the board, it’ll be public knowledge and it might affect your reputation.’"
Landrum said he refused, and is determined to continue his work.
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OBAMA CARE: Un-insuring the insured......un-treating the well treated. Brought to you by the tender mercies of your gummint!
Heh heh heh... the doctor got probed...
Meanwhile, the doctors who were writing prescriptions and sick notes for strangers at the Madison State Capitol protests get not even a slap on the wrist.
Watch the video. It’s easy to see the problem...he’s CURING people and making them better. AND HE’S AFFORDABLE. Can’t have that! The purpose of ObamaCare(less) is to kill off as many people as possible.
I guess I’m having an issue with understanding WHY this is illegal. Isn’t this no different than a concierge doctor that does house calls? Both doctors would have a license.. both doctors would drive to the home.. both doctors would evaluate a patient/diagnose if possible/write a script if necessary. OR.. is it because a concierge doctor has $ in hand upright (before an appointment) and a contract? OR.. is this all the about the financial aspects of the patients? (one doctor serving more affluent vs this doctor serving less affluent?)
Heh heh heh... the doctor got probed...
Post of the day. LOL
There's the problem. The State Medical Board wants this old doc gone because he is just too darn cheap and convenient for the proles.
Here is something similar going on. You can buy QuikClot bandages on Amazon. If somebody has a serious injury, having one handy can save their life. The FDA wants to make them by prescription only because people are walking into hospitals with QuikClot bandages on instead of being rushed to the hospital in an ambulance and getting emergency surgery and units of blood, all of which make big bucks for hospitals.
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Compare that doc to the medicare/medicaid thieving S Florida slime..........
Back in the 1950’s the family doctor came to our house on occasion. We were not in the country. We were right next to Detroit city in a southwest suburb, Lincoln Park. We had to be pretty sick and I think the cost was $5.00.
Absolutely they could/should be making house calls if they desire. Choice v regulation.
Out of his car or over the internet via a “virtual visit” at least the Dr actually looked at you when he drives his car to the patient.
If an enterprising poor person creates a ride sharing business in a poor area, it's called a jitney and it gets hammered out of existence. If an enterprising rich person does the same thing it gets called Uber.
Good point. But how is considering this unlawful all that different from making the purchase of medications without a prescription -- or a doctor's examination -- unlawful?
I was watching an old TV episode a few weeks ago and saw one episode where a doctor came to tend to one of the characters. The character’s wife had a conniption over her husband’s ill state, so the doctor “gave her a sedative.”
This amazed me. To just so casually give out a med like that, without red tape or complex processes getting in the way. That would be unthinkable in these times! If that woman had needed help in this era, she would’ve jad to go to an emergency room and wait around for hours while jumping through so damn many hoops..
I wish that those days would come back.
I don’t see the difference at all. In fact, we use a family practice that has a PA (Physician Assistant). Why would me seeing a PA vs an MD (licensed) in a car be different at all? I totally agree with the other posters that it all boils down to $. The doctor doesn’t charge a high fee and doesn’t have the overhead of rent for an office, bookkeepers, RN’s, etc..
Same goes for Docs in California writing prescriptions for pot for anyone with a headache.
I have noticed also that younger docs tend to not give you any meds in the office. There was a day when I did not leave my docs office without a sack full of samples and meds he would give me until it was convenient for me to go to the pharmacy.
Exactly - same here! We add more red tape and more restrictions, and as a result more doctors fear for their livelihoods.. and then quality of care goes down the crapper.
Things are waaaaay more complicated than they need to be.
In “The Lincoln Lawyer” the attorney practices out of his Lincoln.
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