Today's patients must adjust to seeing many physicians, many of whom are strangers. If you need a doctor on the weekend, at night or just need a ‘same day appointment’, you may very well not be seen by your physician. This is not your father’s medical practice. The days of the physician house call have vanished. There are many reasons responsible for this evolution (?devolution) in medical care. Patients have by and large adjusted to this new reality. Housecall with some Old Fashioned Bloodletting We physicians have had to adjust as well. Formerly, we took care of our patients exclusively, with rare exceptions when we were out of town. If you went to the hospital, we were there. Same day appointment needed? We squeezed you in. There was no nurse practitioner to pick up the slack. While I’m not making a judgment on the mediical merits, physicians of yesteryear were more devoted to their patients and their profession than they were to their own lifestyles, a fa
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