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Posted on 06/19/2010 5:04:40 PM PDT by raybbr
Updated 12:15 AM EDT, Sat, Jun 19, 2010
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Laura Wojcik's little girl, Elizabeth, is due Saturday. So imagine her surprise when she learned she'd have to find another doctor for the delivery and find one in just one day.
"I was pretty upset because I love going here and everything. They're good doctors, and then I had to change," said Wojcik.
A doctor from the Norwich OB-GYN Group will be on call this weekend, but inside the office, the waiting room is empty, and there are no doctors in the exam rooms. The office stopped taking patients Thursday when it decided it could no longer meet the financial demands of running the practice.
"We've had a reduction in reimbursement from the state-funded insurances, because the budget situation, things had slowed down, so April, May were very slow, and June continued to be slow," said Bernadette Grecki, the practice administrator.
Add to that the payments from the largest state-funded insurance provider wouldn't be arriving till July, and the office says it had no choice but to close.
"It was too much for the doctor. He realized he couldn't keep funding the practice," said Grecki.
The group says it is working with other OB-GYN's in the area to accommodate patients, and the files of pregnant patients who are at 32 weeks or more have already been transferred to Backus Hospital, so doctors will be prepared when the women go into labor.
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The MSM will blame doctors for deaths - doctors will be as popular as BP management...
How long until we get "doctors" with junior college degrees?
My husband and I are both docs. We have yet to make 400,000 combined income. And what we do make, we give 1/2 off the top to uncle sam. A plumber makes more per hour than I do.
After you...
Incredible! This just happened to us too. My wife is due on Monday. Our OB disappeared from the practice several weeks ago, no warning, no remedy, no explanation, just gone!
Actually, most doctors are fairly conservative. The AMA, however, has not represented doctors for years. 30 years ago when I was in Med School only about 40% or so were members and it has gone downhill since. I believe right now only about 17% are members. Some years ago the AMA realized they were going the way of the dinosaur so they cooked up a scheme to copyright the CPT codes doctors have to use to get paid. They shouldn’t be allowed to do this, but our congresscriters made it possible for them and the m geta a “piece of the action” everytime a doctor submits a bill for a procedure. In return, they support every libtard scheme the congresscritters dream up. It is really pretty disgusting.
1. cost becomes zero, demand soars
2. profitability goes to zero, supply collapses
3. **PANDEMONIUM**
As the wife of a physician-
When you go through 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, 5 years of residency, and find yourself $100,000 in debt.
And-
you start a practice, to be told how much you can get paid, and have to deal with patients who would sue you in an instant.
And-
spend all night tending to patients who got into accidents in the ER.
And-
have to support an office staff and pay high overhead.
And-
Have a very high stress job in which decisions are made within seconds that can affect a patient’s future.
You can then make snide remarks about physician’s income.
You are a complete jerk, and I do not care if i get banned for saying so.
Take your class envy somewhere else. Free Republic is supposed to support achievers, not low end losers.
Go to DU.
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“You can’t reason with people who think like this because they will never concede to your argument, no matter how valid and clearly stated.”
You could also apply that statement to muzzies.
There's been more than a little class envy gracing the pages of FR lately. I'd like to see everybody who works for it make 400K a year, believe me.
That's what this country is all about (....or it used to be, at least).
Leni
Willie-
I might also add-
You seem to post a lot about trains, so I assume you work for Amtrak.
How many years of education and debt did you have to start your career?
What is your stress level?
Have you ever stopped a heart during open heart surgery?
Have you ever repaired a person who was torn apart in an auto accident?
Have you ever coded a patient?
Or did you throw some baggage in a train, stamped some tickets, and fester a resentment against people who earn more than you?
I might add, most physicians do not make $400,000 a year.
Thank you.
My husband is a physician, and a lot of my friends are also physicians.
I see the stress they go through all the time.
Most of them would not pick medicine as a career if they had to do it again.
I then see people who post here, Free Republic, a site where achievement is recognized- who blast people for achievement.
They are trolls.
If true, the irony wouldn’t be sweeter
most of us would pay cash if the dr. office visits were less costly...and they would be if the dr. didn’t have to
hire several office assistants just to fill out forms and send in paperwork....
hippy brother won’t “get it” until he personally is affected with how own health emergency or with that of a loved one.
from my perspective in health care for a long, long time....I view drs as maybe the BEST a human being can be....smart,caring,efficient,moral too.....just great people....
He WILL be affected! He is now disabled and I suspect his Doctor will call it quits soon. My brother has NO IDEA! He has severe back problems from his decades of work. (he is truly and completely disabled.) At this point, I do feel sorry for him. He can barely make it through the day with out strong meds and not because he used to be a druggie.)
Muslim docs that will go sideways and poison public transportation, blow up discos or shoot up schools.
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