Joan Juliet Buck | 02/02/2009 11:00 pm
Joan Juliet Buck on Why Your PCP Shouldn't Be Your GI
In response to: In the discussion on health care, everyone laments they can no longer have a great relationship with their doctor. Do you?
I switched my New Mexico Blue Cross Blue Shield ($381 a month) for New York Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield ($1493 a month), and they require an in-network doctor, whom I have not yet found, as Empire wanted me to go to a doctor who has not practiced for the last four years … so my GI doctor is now my primary-care doctor, and if you don’t mind having a colonoscopy for a sore throat, he’s the greatest.
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