[CedarDave]

As an example of how bad it is, Sen. Jay Block (R-Rio Rancho) described his father’s battle with prostate cancer. Albuquerque, a city of 560,000, has only 15 practicing urologists. Meanwhile, Durango, Colorado—with a fraction of Albuquerque’s population—has eight. “We’re talking months before people can get treatment for prostate cancer,” Block warned, describing the situation as a growing crisis.

Here in southeast New Mexico, where oil and gas production has lowered unemployment to near zero, near proximity to doctors and hospitals in Lubbock and Midland, Texas, has been part of the solution, if the patient's health insurance allows for treatment by out of state doctors. However, those in central NM have no such option.

[CedarDave]

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[ChuckHam]

It’s a double-edged sword now. DEI doctors causing problems and good doctors paying the price. The medical profession is at fault as much as the ambulance chasers are.

[LibertyOh]

Living here in the same area I can confirm it is nearly impossible to get care from a urologist. I had kidney stones and was initially told 9 months before I could see one. It’s a nightmare. Last year I had more stones while I was visiting kids in Virginia, ER there and surgery that night. Needed follow up a week later but had to come home, follow up appointment was scheduled for 2 months later. Was finally able to switch to another Dr who was a much better Dr.

The malpractice lawyers fund NM Democrats and nothing will happen until the Democrats are voted out. In other words, never.

[dasboot]

My wife suddenly got a very painful lump in her wrist. She went to a doctor.
The doc said it was a ganglion cyst and cut without imaging.

He confessed he never had seen like it before, but still proceeded to open the ‘cyst’.

After the opening, the sack was cut, and he said he had to do “a lot of of scraping the goop from the tendons and closed.

It was examined by another doctor who declared the ‘cyst’ was a sarcoma: cancer.

The cancerous cells are now entering her circulating blood.

She is now having her forearm
amputated in two days. The malignet cancerous cells are creeping up her arm. Left as is, she will die.
So, she has decided she wants to live longer with one arm.
I think there it a reasonable case for damages.
There is a good reason for lawyers that can have the know-how to prevail in cases like this.
Those lawyers are needed.
Sad, though, is the ‘cancer’ of unscrupulous attorneys that attack great doctors...a pox.
Sigh...

[dasboot]

My wife suddenly got a very painful lump in her wrist. She went to a doctor.
The doc said it was a ganglion cyst and cut without imaging.

He confessed he never had seen like it before, but still proceeded to open the ‘cyst’.

After the opening, the sack was cut, and he said he had to do “a lot of of scraping the goop from the tendons and closed.

It was examined by another doctor who declared the ‘cyst’ was a sarcoma: cancer.

The cancerous cells are now entering her circulating blood.

She is now having her forearm
amputated in two days. The malignet cancerous cells are creeping up her arm. Left as is, she will die.
So, she has decided she wants to live longer with one arm.
I think there it a reasonable case for damages.
There is a good reason for lawyers that can have the know-how to prevail in cases like this.
Those lawyers are needed.
Sad, though, is the ‘cancer’ of unscrupulous attorneys that attack great doctors...a pox.
Sigh...

[dasboot]

My wife suddenly got a very painful lump in her wrist. She went to a doctor.
The doc said it was a ganglion cyst and cut without imaging.

He confessed he never had seen like it before, but still proceeded to open the ‘cyst’.

After the opening, the sack was cut, and he said he had to do “a lot of of scraping the goop from the tendons and closed.

It was examined by another doctor who declared the ‘cyst’ was a sarcoma: cancer.

The cancerous cells are now entering her circulating blood.

She is now having her forearm
amputated in two days. The malignet cancerous cells are creeping up her arm. Left as is, she will die.
So, she has decided she wants to live longer with one arm.
I think there it a reasonable case for damages.
There is a good reason for lawyers that can have the know-how to prevail in cases like this.
Those lawyers are needed.
Sad, though, is the ‘cancer’ of unscrupulous attorneys that attack great doctors...a pox.
Sigh...

[dasboot]

My wife suddenly got a very painful lump in her wrist. She went to a doctor.
The doc said it was a ganglion cyst and cut without imaging.

He confessed he never had seen like it before, but still proceeded to open the ‘cyst’.

After the opening, the sack was cut, and he said he had to do “a lot of of scraping the goop from the tendons and closed.

It was examined by another doctor who declared the ‘cyst’ was a sarcoma: cancer.

The cancerous cells are now entering her circulating blood.

She is now having her forearm
amputated in two days. The malignet cancerous cells are creeping up her arm. Left as is, she will die.
So, she has decided she wants to live longer with one arm.
I think there it a reasonable case for damages.
There is a good reason for lawyers that can have the know-how to prevail in cases like this.
Those lawyers are needed.
Sad, though, is the ‘cancer’ of unscrupulous attorneys that attack great doctors...a pox.
Sigh...