Is concierge doctoring the new medicine?

DEAR DR. GOTT: I am so happy you are on the Internet. I was hoping it would happen because sometimes I miss your column in the Naples, Fla., newspaper, and now you are available to me all the time. I wish I could find a doctor like you here in Naples, but they all seem to come here to become millionaires.

My present doctor charges $3,500 a year to see me four or five times to ask how I am feeling, which is a little much. He has been my physician for the past 15 years, and now this! He doesn’t take Medicare. I tried another physician and thought I would give a woman a go. Wrong! I was completely ignored by her and was treated by her LPN assistant. What’s a gal to do?
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