I'm just short of 50 and never experienced house calls but i do know they used to be the normal way to see you doctor up until the i think the 60's? Would there be anything standing in the way of doctors doing house calls outside of the scam we call insurance?
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There is nothing standing in their way today, other than the bottleneck of doctors' time being micromanaged by insurance billing and ridiculous overhead, and a general shortage of doctors. Doctors today, in most places in the U.S., could easily work 20 hours/day without ever leaving the office, meaning that every step away from their office is literally denying time to another patient. To optimize their time with patients they work in the office almost exclusively.