I've been a long-time user of medical services (since early childhood...), and I learned a long time ago to treat medical care as any other commodity that I'm buying. Nowadays, with the availability of an overwhelming amount of info on the Internet, we can be even more proactive regarding our own care.
With this in mind, I can say that I am pretty happy with the health care I receive here. I have had two problems in all these years, one with a PCP who made a mistake (documented by other MDs in whose care I was at the time) whose ego kept him back from admitting it. I left him in a breath!
The other with a specialist who has an fine reputation in the area but who also made a major mistake that could potentially have had serious consequences (and fortunately did not). My current PCP, whom I highly recommend, picked up on it and urged me not just to listen to him but to do my own "homework" online and find out for myself. I learned from several online sources that the PCP was right—and the specialist with the fine reputation was wrong....
The bottom line is that we have to advocate for ourselves!
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