[barb1191]

Touchy situation for which I can hardly feel that the medical profession is suffering that much. My experience showed that doctors put in a 9-5 day and 12-1 lunchtime. With all due respect, I find that the major problem is mismanagement.

Big difference here in Boston. We have world-renowned medical facilities such as Mass General Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Center, Childrens' Hospital.....to name a few.

My PCP is extremely organized and is associated with another very well-known hospital, Beth Israel in Boston. His office is equipped with all hi-tech specialties in their offsite building in the suburbs. There is also a computer site they maintain where a patient can email their doctor and get same-day responses. A patient can logon to this site and see their own personal records, complete with test results. The patient can logon and make appointments and even request prescription refills which, when approved by the dr, will be called in to the pharmacy for patient pickup. Doubt you'll ever see that in FL, unfortunately.

Returned to my oncologist at Dana Farber and had an appt with him within the week we returned to MA. They are all fully staffed here and well organized. Even the small country doctor is still around and he still makes house calls. That's Bill's dr who is sharp as a tack and extremely well organized.

Maybe it's the slower pace in the South; don't really know, other than I do know where we belong in time of serious medical needs.