The Partial Observer by Maureen Dill
On the Crisis in Rural Healthcare...
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you will want to know is….” (Holden Caulfield)
Is this about me and the Bassett Primary Care physician who dismissed me from among her patients without any warning, stating in a September letter that she had made a decision to curtail her practice?
Is this about my community here in the Butternut Valley of Otsego County and the sudden, unexpected closing of the Bassett Healthcare Center in Morris—a valuable and necessary community resource that had served more than 900 residents of the Butternut Valley?
Is this about local volunteer ambulance squads forced to wait lengthy periods of time with patients onboard outside our local hospital ER?
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