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Date: | Sun, 25 Aug 2002 21:16:36 +0100 |
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On Sunday 25 Aug 2002 4:53 pm, Salkin Kathleen wrote:
> If you're part of an HMO organisation (or even a Medicaid system),
> you can probably find another primary care physician and
> specialists, if not in your town, then in the surrounding area.
> You do have choices, you just may have to work harder at getting
> them.
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> When my family first moved to North Carolina when I was 15, we
> moved to a small town of less than 1000 people between two larger
> towns, which are now small cities. There was only one doctor in
> this town, but we had a choice of other doctors in the area. My
> mother had to drive longer distances to get to them but she did
> whatever she had to, to get there. I ended up seeing an
> orthopaedist 30 miles away.
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> Kat
Jenn had no private transport ("I had no money to get a vehicle to
travel at the time.") No car limits choice.
Cheers
Deri
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