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I would pay that without blinking if the care was good and getting appointments didn't take 3-12 months. We just waited a YEAR for a new patient appointment for my chronically I'll wife and the doctor is terrible. Told her he basically had no interest in helping figure out her problems and if he did, he wouldn't be a PCP.

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I no longer support licensing primary care physicians after some of the things I've seen. I know someone that had high blood pressure (a condition that's easy to verify even if you don't have a doctor) and their doctor refused to do anything about it. As in, the patient repeatedly brought it up, and the doctor ignored the problem. That's not the worst I've seen by a long shot.

Licensing serves no purpose if you're not going to take it away in cases of incompetence and malice. This has turned me into a fan of malpractice suits with large punitive damages.

Unfortunately there's very little reprocuasion for a doctor being bad at their job. As long as they don't do anything That'll revoke their license they don't care. That's the problem and naturally when people get beaten down enough they stop trying, and you get people like yourself who will just say "why go to doctors they usually don't help me anyways so might as well save myself the time."

Lol so let's just not have doctors then?

Well, Mister "lol"; what does "have doctors" mean to you. Because it seems to me without needing any sort of special education that one could conceivably take the term 'have doctors' to mean one thing according to how one poster describes their experience and mean something else entirely depending on how another poster would describe their experience. So, explicitly, what exactly does " have doctors " mean to you?

Yep this. We travel very far for my fiancé's gp because it's the only doctor trying to help her and takes her insurance.

Finding a doctor is easy. Finding a good doctor that will try to figure things out when things go very wrong is very challenging and frustrating.

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