It's Baaaack! The House Call, That Is
Guess who's making house calls again? If you guessed technical support for your wireless device, wrong. It's doctors. For many, if not most of you reading this, you're probably thinking, so, what's the big deal? But I can remember Dr. Cunningham (who smelled like a pipe) coming over to treat my brother for something or other when we were kids and that it was nothing unusual. But the thought of a doctor coming over today, well, they just don't have the time if they're going to make money. With doctors having to see volumes of patients just to pay the bills, it's been a trend that went out with One Direction (who think they're still bigger than the Beatles). Yet here it is. "The house call — is returning to favor as part of some hospitals’ palliative care programs, which are sending teams of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other workers to patients’ homes after they are discharged," writes Milt Freudenheim at The New ...