I am fortunate. Participate in a boutique deal. My GP has always been solid and get personal attention even before he converted to boutique business. Always get right in and get good response to mris blood tests etc. maybe his connections?
Took adult daughter year ago with Covid. She is not in any special medical deal. Over 2 hours waiting in hospital ER. At least 40 to 50 Spanish speakers and we two whites. She could not take the in chair wait any longer so back to her home.
Suffered another few days on her own.
That’s where we are.
There is a surgeon I know whose large multispecialty practice was sold to a hospital corporation due to the high cost and legal landmines of running a private practice. He went to corporate to make a complaint about how the employees in the practice were being treated by the overlords. The overlord representing the hospital corporation told him- we own you now and we are not going to listen to your complaints. Thats how it is now. Healthcare is being run by MBAs who only want productivity , the more patients seen means more money for the overlords, long waits and short appointment times for patients. It really gets me angry when people say they hate doctors, they don’t know the pressures they are under. I was so glad my husband retired. It was such a relief because I saw the stress he was under.