On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM, bob_brigante<no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > My neighbor with a brain tumor got a visit from Apria's giant van yesterday, > but I doubt if a doc was aboard -- you can still get a actual doctor house > call in England, but that's pretty much a gone John here. > > http://www.apria.com/about_apria/1,2746,512,00.html
In my part of the US nurse practitioners are becoming very popular. And even those people are overkill. You really don't need a family physician (4 year residency required) or general practitioner to handle most problems. An EMT or medic would do. I've been treated quite adequately by nurse practitioners where I live, at Gatwick Airport when I took ill before a flight back to the US, and in Boulder. IRRC nurse practitioners are becoming very popular in places like Iowa, especially in the area of anesthesia. I needed day surgery a few years ago and was kind of shocked when I was introduced to my anesthetist, a nurse practitioner. But I've never received such care and concern as I have from her. Whenever my blood oxygen saturation dropped, she'd be at my side urging me to breathe and giving me some Vicodin. I had a deviated septum repaired. These make it difficult to breath and also hurt. Considering the care I get from my gp, I'd much rather walk into a fire station and ask to be seen by an EMT.
