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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That’s the kind of docs I go to....I pay my bill with a check upon leaving the exam room....and they do NOT deal with insurance....I have to submit. NOR do they take medicare/medicaid. So....I get really good care....some people think it costs a lot, but I guess I think my life is worth it, besides...I calculated the time I spend for usually 1 hr with my doc, and what my husband would spend, and be charged with a corporate doc....they amounted to about the same $$ cost....it’s just that I get a little more time with my doc, and better care.
Realistically it is MUCH better care. The Doctors are there because they WANT to be, not because they have to be. Healing and medicine is NOT some sort of assembly line. It is a calling and a gift. I find it abhorrent that medicine as a whole has tried to become a fast food joint. It is ante-thetical to the very concept of healing.
Good for you for finding a healer who also believes in this. The more we support such people, the more it will become the norm. AMEN!
How are things going otherwise?
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