So, in the past six months I've lost nearly every doctor that I see:
Allergy Doctor moved across the country and put another doctor in charge of his (private) practice but will still see patients via Zoom-style meetings. He's over 3,400 miles away, but still maintains the office. Weird, huh?
Doctor #2 suddenly moved to Chicago because his wife wanted to move there. No offense to Chicagoans, but who would want to move there right now?
Doctor #3 (PCP) is giving up his long-time practice out of the blue to work with drug addiction patients.
I just called to make an appointment with my eye doctor and I was told he is "on extended medical leave."
Is anyone else experiencing this bizarre trend? Are doctors "getting out of Dodge" before the SHTF or experiencing side effects from the jabs?
For the past 8 years, small practices have been consolidating and joining hospital networks. Back then, medical used to be about 1/3rd of my revenue and that all but dried up until I finally got in with the hospital IT staff as a trusted partner. Now the hospital is my biggest customer, as they can't grow their staff fast enough to support all their consolidations. Years of hiring incompetent, low dollar staff finally caught up to them, while I can flip a switch and give them a competent project team that comes and goes as needed. It's way easier for them to budget service dollars than staffing dollars.
What many people don't understand is that the Dems set the stage for both single payer and single provider. At that point, government control over medicine would be comparatively simple with just a few points to exert influence vs tens of thousands. We (kind of) defeated single payer, but market regulations are successfully merging small practices with large ones, large practices with hospitals, and smaller hospitals with larger ones.