>You aren't kidding about the Dutch not coming here for treatment. Frank Camp had a debiliating headache: a doctor came to his house, on Saturday night, in a special van loaded with whatever might be needed. He checked back with Frank on Sunday, and when Frank said it was still bad (it turned out to be encephalitis), the doctor arranged for Frank to be admitted to the hospital immediately.
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>I remember having a house call from a doctor back in 1952 or 53. I think I've heard that some Park Ave. doctors still do house calls.

I've had one house call in my adult life. I was 8 or 9 months pregnant and having some problem (don't remember anymore since it was almost 27 years ago). When I called my doc (who was also a friend) on a Sunday evening, he decided to come the 3 blocks to my house rather than both of us going to the hospital.

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>Meanwhile, our Dr.'s are being graded on how few services they use. "Let's watch that suspicious thing on your nose until it gets bigger before we send you for a biopsy." That's not made up: it happened to me in the last year, and then it did get bigger, and the story gets a little (but fortunately not a lot) gloomy after that. But what do you expect from a system in which health expenditures flow to the bottom line of corporations with stockholders to please, and options for the executives on the line?

Yeah, I agree that our system has all the incentives wrong.

Tamar