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One thing i worry about in small town living is corruption from politicians to the local police force etcc.. One benefit from living in a larger area or city is corruption is tougher to hide and get away with when hundreds of thousands of people are around or millions. In a small town i'm sure stuff goes under the radar.
In my experience, it is just the opposite. In my town (1600 happy folks), many people know everything. The police chief's wife trims our dogs, for example. When we lived in DC, there was a pretty much unstoppable inner circle. Big campaign donors were contractors, who got all the big contracts.
For medical issues you need to become your own healthcare advocate. This is not a rural / urban thing, anyone, everyone needs a healthcare adcovate.
If you need to see a specialist, then you need to see one.
If you need to see six of them, then guess what?
The OP is way off mark thinking this is a rural topic.
A few years ago, my annual check-up blood screening showed that I have an elevated PSA count. The local hospital could not get me in to see a urologist within 8 months. They were trying to hire a new urologist, but at that moment there was a local shortage. I called my insurance and I asked them, they gave me a list of urologists that they cover. I found a urology clinic an hour away, that gave me an appointment in 2 days. From that time on, it was tests, scans, biopsies and surgery all within 6 weeks. I went from thinking that I possibly had prostate cancer, to being post-cancer all within a 6 week period. Because I did not settle with the local hospital's shortage of specialists.
Dude, it's 2017. Even small town doctors have access to the internet. If this guy isn't capable of communicating with the international medical community to get help diagnosing an issue that he's unfamiliar with, you have a bad doctor. The population of the community where he practices has nothing to do with it.
And, by the way, you're the one who has kept going back to him rather than moving on to someone else. That says more about you than the town where you live.
Oh, and obesity is a problem everywhere in this country.
One thing i worry about in small town living is corruption from politicians to the local police force etcc.. One benefit from living in a larger area or city is corruption is tougher to hide and get away with when hundreds of thousands of people are around or millions. In a small town i'm sure stuff goes under the radar.
It's exactly the opposite, actually. Corruption in large cities often goes undetected for years because there's so much anonymity. In a small town, everybody knows pretty much everyone else, and when something fishy is going on it's usually not long before someone spills the beans.
It's exactly the opposite, actually. Corruption in large cities often goes undetected for years because there's so much anonymity. In a small town, everybody knows pretty much everyone else, and when something fishy is going on it's usually not long before someone spills the beans.
Did you read the earlier posts? I think not, or you plagiarized part of mine. Puleez...
One thing i worry about in small town living is corruption from politicians to the local police force etcc.. One benefit from living in a larger area or city is corruption is tougher to hide and get away with when hundreds of thousands of people are around or millions. In a small town i'm sure stuff goes under the radar.
When I think of corruption, the first two places that come to mind are Chicago and NYC. And then NYS and NJ.
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