Take a look at what’s happening in Long Island:
“I’m scared that we’re just going to have people simply stop practicing,” he said. “It has been noticeable that the physician community has been quiet ““ it hasn’t spoken up, and I tend to think there’s too many people planning, saying’you know, four more years and my kids are out of high school, and I’m going to move.’” . . .. . . And as J. Gerald Quirk, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Stony Brook Medical Center, points out, the biggest losers in this will be patients ““ especially “the medically underserved.”
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So if it’s so bad, why are there more physicians per capita on Long Island than there were a few years ago?
The story is about OB/Gyn specialists who deliver. I wouldn’t want to work there with those premiums either. But there are scads of other doctors whose premiums are much lower.
The more relevant question for the first poster to ask is whether the numbers of OB/GYNs in that area of Long Island have grown proportionately to the numbers of doctors generally in that region or perhaps relative to the growth of the segment of the population using OB/Gyn services (versus Gyn only; they aren’t the same.)
Actually, if the medical society promoting these scare tactics were honest, they would release the raw data, rather than just surveys of this doctor or that doctor telling us they’re about to run away if they don’t get what they want, much like a 10 year old.
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