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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they could have partied in college and become teachers and never worry again....
Medicare payments cut again yesterday, its all intentional.
I’m sure a lot of baby boomer docs will figure out it’s time to retire rather than work for Baraqqi wages and pay Baraqqi taxes.
Then “unexpectedly” there will be a doctor shortage.
It’s to show that there IS A GREAT NEED FOR HEALTHCARE REFORM!!
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I hope it would still be possible for doctors to continue an entirely private practice. Guess that isn’t the case. :(
We’re going to be seeing more and more of this. Count on it.
Perhaps not officially.
My doctor told me this week that he may have to cut staff. He said it may come to patients seeing a physician practitioner before some one will see a medical doctor.
Way to go OBummer!
You got that right - they DO work like dogs and when people complain about the GOOD doctors, I get hot. What job requires you to wake up at night from your sleep to solve a health problem? Everyone you touch is a potential candidate for suing you. You work with medical support that has now sunk to a new, uncaring, selfish and unqualified level to do their jobs. The in-fighting in nursing is a disgrace. If only people knew!!! As for being a teacher...my god...who wants to scream and be screamed at all day by a bunch of spoiled rotten kids with parents that do care what they do.
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There is an American clinic in Panama - think it’s Mayo and there is another big American clinic scheduled to open in Costa Rica. The care is above and beyond any you can get in the USA for a huge reduction in price
If your a primary care doctor in private practice why the he!! would you remain in business when the obama admin supports ILLEGALS and basically are dumping 20-40 million of them into the health care system.
Come on MAN!
I’m curious. Did she vote for this?
Doing to medicine, what was done to manufacturing.
Obama’s answer;
You want loans for med school, you do time here during and after.
My OB-GYN is moving out of his office as of next Thursday, said he’s moving back to his family in Illinois. Back to searching for a doctor again.
My cardiologist told me months ago he will probably quit when Death Care takes effect. I don’t know if his partners will continue without him, but he plans to bail out. I’m guessing he’s maybe my age or a little older (50s/60s). I can sympathize with his plight. He might as well get out while the gettin’ is still fairly good.
What will probably happen also is, not only will we have a shortage of doctors, but the ones who will be left will be substandard at best.
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