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Originally Posted by goodtimesintv
Most doctors want to work with people, not petri dishes, test tubes, and window-less rooms full of computers. Personally, I've never liked being presented to a group of white coats, as a specimen looking half-dead and not having had my hair washed in a week or more, unless I have something rare that requires the researchers.
Looking at the largest med centers in the U.S. here, Florida is very well represented. There are good doctors here in TV-Leesburg Area, too. Bigger hospital does not mean better doctors actually treating patients.
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I agree. I was both professor of medicine at a university hospital and chief of staff at a 130 bed community hospital. For most aspects of care, from aides to nurses to your primary care doctor, you get more attention and better care from your friends and neighbors that you will ever see at a tertiary care center. When you have a rare illness, or severe trauma, the university is where you need to be. But for run of the mill hospitalizations, I would stay local, and my family and I have. The only time any of us went to a big center was when I needed urgent cervical spine neurosurgery, something that was not available at our local hospital