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Old 06-08-2012, 03:02 PM
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We've been here for a year now and I must admit that healthcare has been the biggest challenge! As probably everywhere, there are good, bad and indifferent doctors and we just had to weed out a few in the process. We did not want to stay in NC and i can only think we would have encountered the same problems no matter where we relocated. I think we are happy with our current doctors. We did have to make a trip to The Villages ER with a high blood pressure event. We were treated very well during our 5 hour stay. The problem seems to be there's not enough beds nor staff for their ER visitors. We have since been advised to go to the Leesburg Hospital for ER but we are in no hurry to try it!

I would think I might be tempted to go to Mayo or Shands for something really complicated!