Whatever Happened To...

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I don't remember ever having a doctor who made house calls. I think I did once when I was about four. I was very sick, and my parents drove me to a DC hospital, where I was diagnosed with croup and sent home. I got worse, so Mom bit the bullet and called a retired country doctor who lived in the village. I guess he came over and diagnosed me as having diphtheria. He prescribed something that worked!

I just learned of something new. A friend's landlord is very ill with cancer and has a "concierge doctor" who will go to the hospital or the home to consult on his treatment. The man's sister-in-law is an RN and thinks the doctor is a quack, but the wife thinks he's fine. It must be something new in the Affordable Health Care Act (and I will now shut up!).