Word: neurosurgeon
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...babies. Many women now have to drive an hour or more to reach a hospital with a delivery room, forcing several, like Melinda Sallard, 22, to give birth in the car en route to the hospital. Seniors in parts of Pennsylvania travel an hour or two to see a neurosurgeon, and one orthopedic surgeon from Philadelphia commutes every week to see patients in the Midwest, where malpractice-insurance costs are lower. Emergency rooms from Orlando, Fla., to Belleville, Mo., report that rising insurance premiums are making it difficult for them to employ the trauma specialists needed to treat car-accident...
...Pulmonary's original carrier to give the practice a special two-month extension--albeit a pricey one, costing about $35,000. Walsh has reason to be worried. Sosenko's practice isn't the only one in Joliet that is perilously close to shutting down. The area's last remaining neurosurgeon, after learning he would have to pay $468,000 a year for insurance, up from $180,000, is considering moving to South Dakota or quitting for good. And a local group of 16 cardiologists--as well as 60 general practitioners--may lose their insurance at the end of this month...
...number of obstetricians have stopped accepting patients, forcing some women to drive to Utah for prenatal care, a pregnant radio host took to the airwaves and begged her listeners to help her find an obgyn. (Her unorthodox method worked.) In Pennsylvania, a particularly unlucky senior has lost his neurosurgeon and orthopedic surgeon to other states, and now his rheumatologist and urologist are threatening to move as well...
...Gupta is a neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent
...Gupta is a neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent