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Where one finds the best doctors may have something to do with the income of the area, rather than with the size of the city (or suburban area).
A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan determined that there were 30 percent more physicians to be found in the highest-income areas when compared with the lowest-income areas.
I don't know whether the study also determined that these were "the best doctors," but I think it does point out that many doctors do seem to gravitate towards the higher-income areas. No doubt because doctors tend to earn higher incomes than many people in other professions.
Interestingly, the study also determined that there were 15 percent fewer nurse practitioners in the highest-income areas when compared to the lowest-income areas, suggesting that nurses "follow the need." (Cheers to all our dedicated and hard-working nurses out there!)
Here are a couple of links that may be of interest:
Yes yours was a retirement thread. I agree with you. I'm so close to a good hospital I wouldn't call 911, I would rush the person there if able. I'm nowhere near retirement age, but I need a good ER nearby for peace of mind.
You should always call an ambulance instead of taking the patient yourself, assuming you aren't 90 minutes from a hospital. The EMT's have tremendous skills, and can start stabilizing the patient immediately, as well as prevent further injury if that's the situation. We live half a mile from the fire station, and 6 or 7 miles from the big hospitals in the Texas Medical Center.
When I had cancer in 2015, I was fortunate to be able to go to MD Anderson, since it was a very rare tumor, and there's just a handful of places that have staff that can deal with it.
You should always call an ambulance instead of taking the patient yourself, assuming you aren't 90 minutes from a hospital. The EMT's have tremendous skills, and can start stabilizing the patient immediately, as well as prevent further injury if that's the situation. We live half a mile from the fire station, and 6 or 7 miles from the big hospitals in the Texas Medical Center.
When I had cancer in 2015, I was fortunate to be able to go to MD Anderson, since it was a very rare tumor, and there's just a handful of places that have staff that can deal with it.
I totally get it, I do.
But I could literally be at the ER in less than 5 minutes if I had to be.
911 can take 10-15 minutes sometimes, and that’s just to arrive.
You can search for the top rated hospitals in your disease.
The Mayo Clinic is rated very high in lots of specialties, but is located in the smallish city of Rochester, Minnesota.
It’s a numbers game, when you have specialists you need people with those problems around, or else they literally don’t have any work to do. If you are costing your clinic/hospital money and nobody to fix things, you’ll be let go. Mayo is an oddity, Rochester is built around it, people from all over MN, WI, IL, IA, and the world travel to it. It couldn’t survive just on the local population. Since I live within 1.5 hrs of it in Twin Cities the news will occasionally talk about some Prince or King or royal family member being treated there…
Depends on your needs. I live in a pretty large metropolitan area (Colorado Springs) and there are still a few things that you might have to go to Denver to get to a specialist for that particular thing for....
One issue may not be so much the doctors, as the equipment. When I lived in Colorado Springs I had to have kidney surgery. The needed equipment was only available in Denver. I ended up not having to go to Denver because once a month they would literally take the equipment to Colorado Springs for a day or two, schedule multiple surgeries, and then return the equipment to Denver. But, I was lucky in that the equipment needed was very expensive for hospitals, but not physically large.
There are no Level One trauma centers in many rural areas. Hopefully you will never need one, but that proximity could save your life if you were in an serious accident that required immediate intervention in a L1 center. Otherwise, it's usually an airlift to a city that has one and that could take an hour depending on your location. Yes you will be treated en-route but if your injury requires a major surgery that won't happen until you get to the OR in the trauma center.
There are no Level One trauma centers in many rural areas. Hopefully you will never need one, but that proximity could save your life if you were in an serious accident that required immediate intervention in a L1 center. Otherwise, it's usually an airlift to a city that has one and that could take an hour depending on your location. Yes you will be treated en-route but if your injury requires a major surgery that won't happen until you get to the OR in the trauma center.
So.. the moral of the story here is don't get stabbed by a hooker in Reno, NV?
that map.. Something can't be right. I find it hard to believe that there are NO Level 1 Trauma centers in Alaska or Hawaii.. what? You get shot in Honolulu and you get flown 8 hours to Cali? What prevents.. Whatever the top hospital in Honolulu is from being a Level 1 trauma center? Is it just some little technicality?
I get that many rural hospitals don't have the bedspace or things needed.. My grandmother, before she passed, was sent to Laurens Hospital in Laurens, SC twice. The first time was when she first got sick (Years upon years of heartburn caused her stomach to try to climb up her esophagus!) and they took her to Greenville for her surgery, about 30-40 miles away. Then 4 months later, she had a stroke and she was ambulanced to Laurens, where they promptly choppered her to Greenville. Laurens is a community with a population under 10k tho, whereas Greenville is many times bigger.
Baltimore isn't a "big city" as far as cities go but it has the UMMC and John's Hopkins which are very good research hospitals.
I had a heart valve replaced in the UMMC and it was one of the few doing that method by inserting through an artery in the groin (no hacking open my chest like was required for my bypass several years earlier in another hospital). I also had a kidney transplant there.
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