Sunday, March 31, 2013


No, it is not an actual "CHANCE" card from a MONOPOLY game but, it should be. Any game based on the concept of creating a money grabbing monopoly needs to include The Medical Profession. For the first 40 or so years of my life the same General Practice Physician kept me healthy and did so in an office that did not require an appointment. He worked solo, no receptionist, no assistants, nada. I believe a family member did the billing and clerical duties at home. His day started at about 4:30am and ended at roughly 9:00pm and during that time he managed to "do the rounds" and visited all of his patients in numerous nursing homes, 3 local hospitals, and for those who were home he made House Calls. His Office Hours were in the afternoon and evening and you were seen in the order that you arrived. No appointments, and everybody politely waited their turn in a large waiting room with about 12 chairs and plenty of current magazines, real ones that he paid the subscription fees for and that covered a wide range of interests appealing to males & females, both children & adults. No freebie Drug Company propaganda or fliers. Only his name was on the office door followed by MD. One doctor, not 10 or 15 listed as a "Medical Group" and most certainly not followed by LLC. He was a genuine one man medical treatment provider. He was NOT PRACTICING, he PERFORMED and not once in the 40+ years that he was MY DOCTOR did he fail to fix what was ailing me. He was in his 80's when he retired due to his own failing health and passed away about a year later and I keep his obituary in a place that I consider the highest honor, neatly folded in the pages of my Bible. He never needed the fictitious Chance Card I sarcastically created based on the ones found in a Monopoly game. That card I dedicate to far too many of today's doctors who hide behind abbreviations like Inc. Corp. or LLC and continue to PRACTICE guided by diagnostic software and pharmaceutical salespimps.

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