All of us who are over 40-45 remember when you filled out one piece of paper in the doctor’s office and then paid a relatively small fee. The only problem - which still exists - is that you had to wait. Waiting times were the only problem. I still blame the malpractice industry for all of this.
Soon all the “concierge” doctors will be required by their licensing boards to participate in nobamacare...or their licenses to practice will be yanked. Just watch. The government has the docs by the ba**s.
Yep, we did have the waits, but the doctor and the price was worth it.
Now, what the family doctor used to do is farmed out to specialists. I am not sure if waiting at the family doctor wasn’t better than riding around to different specialists.
The good thing about back then is that doctors were very in tune with their patients and aware of family history.