Caduceus
Shared on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 14:40As many of you know, I'm a family physician. I've been kicking around in my head about trying to pull together a free medical clinic for my area (rural South Carolina) for the uninsured and underinsured aimed primarily at those with chronic medical disorders - hypertension, diabetes, chronic lung disease.
The bug has really bitten me in the last few days and I've started pulling ideas together trying to see if I can get a proposal together for the powers that be - the local hospital, medical clinics, insurance companies, pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies.
Optimally, I'd like to open one evening a month with a plan to eventually be open once a week in the evenings, providing free or extremely low-cost prescription (non-controlled) medicines for individuals who cannot access health care.
This is likely to be Herculean task, in addition to the fact that I'm already involved in too many boards - the local hospital, the state medical association, the infection control physician representative - and I just found out today that one of the doctors in our call group has decided to leave, which puts me in a 1:4 call situation, which isn't horrible, but not nearly as nice as 1:5.
I guess I am just thinking right now, but it would be a definite asset to this community. The problem, as always, is who will pay for it?
The bug has really bitten me in the last few days and I've started pulling ideas together trying to see if I can get a proposal together for the powers that be - the local hospital, medical clinics, insurance companies, pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies.
Optimally, I'd like to open one evening a month with a plan to eventually be open once a week in the evenings, providing free or extremely low-cost prescription (non-controlled) medicines for individuals who cannot access health care.
This is likely to be Herculean task, in addition to the fact that I'm already involved in too many boards - the local hospital, the state medical association, the infection control physician representative - and I just found out today that one of the doctors in our call group has decided to leave, which puts me in a 1:4 call situation, which isn't horrible, but not nearly as nice as 1:5.
I guess I am just thinking right now, but it would be a definite asset to this community. The problem, as always, is who will pay for it?
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