>As with lawyers, there are exceptional MD's who deserve respect. But they are harder and harder to find.
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>I must be really fortunate. I had an outstanding surgeon for my recent hip replacement. I also have a very caring and responsive PCP. My dentist is also a really great doctor. I am so sorry that your experience with the doctors that you have dealt with has been so bad.

I firmly agree with Marcia. I am in the midst of a battle with bladder cancer and, if it were not for my doctor carefully sending me for an ultrasound exam, the tumor would not have been discovered and, since bladder tumors are notoriously aggressive, when ultimately discovered, it would have been too late.

I recently moved from CT to SC and was able to find a great PCP who accepts medicare patients even tho his reimbursement rate is being cut. Same with the hospitals in which my surgery was and will be next week performed. Every one of the medical professionals I have dealt with has been great and I did not perceive any of them to be money grubbing bandits.