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Originally Posted by justjim
Village Health will not accept our State Government Medicare Advantage plan, and our Primary Physician of 20 plus years has retired. Ironically, the doctor recommended by our retiring physician left for “greener pastures” before we could even get into to see him. Makes you wonder what is happening to our medical system that has such a shortage of doctors, nurses and other medical technicians. We would prefer an internal medicine doctor where we could develop a patient/doctor relationship but we have already found it challenging to find any doctor taking on new patients in the surrounding area. Perhaps the Walk-in emergency clinics with doctors and physician Assistants are the only solution now available for medical care in the area. Unless you are having a heart attack, we have marked off the hospital’s E.R. as a place of very last resort.
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Note that there is a huge difference between an emergency clinic and an urgent care facility, especially in the cost. You can get treatment at an urgent care facility and it won't cost an arm and a leg.