Help, I need a Doctor
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California has a hospital. Carmel-by-the-Sea has many medical professionals operating in a variety of specialties. Fundamental healthcare begins with an individual or family?s access to a general physician, call it a family doctor or for children, a Pediatrician and for women a Gynecologist. Certainly, for people like me, a good therapist; better yet, a Psychiatrist! But why is it that someone in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California cannot locate a physician that will take new patients?
CityBlog Carmel-by-the-Sea, was struck by the frustration that was apparent in Susie Pena’s (a Carmel-by-the-Sea, California resident) post on May 9, 2007, which read as follows:
I have been here 1 year this June and have yet to find a doctor that will accept new patients. I am very discouraged that there is no avenue for new residents to find out who is available without a lot of labor intensive efforts.
Does Carmel-by-the-Sea have a physician association or, does the hospital know of new physicians coming into Carmel-by-the-Sea that are looking for new patients? It would behoove all communities to have some centralized service that maintains a list of physicians who can accept patients as either “new†or on a rotating basis until the new resident can establish regular healthcare.
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