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If you think have problem finding doctor (who takes your insurance) here – I believe would be much more difficult in majority of the country.
i think it evens out tho because soooooo many doctors in nyc have boutique practices these days. it’s funny i just got a letter from beth israel hospital this week saying that they will no longer be accepting my insurance? but that they are trying to work something out, and that if their services are needed please feel free to use their services and that they will work out payment arrangements.. has anyone ever gotten a letter like that? i’ve been to beth isreal a few times, but not in a while, and found it odd that i got that letter.
Rob, re subway seats, maybe the feeling is different for a gay man, but for me??? Nah, I would take a seat from anybody – old ladies included, if they offered it to me. Maybe I got used to it when I was injured and had a cane. It means you can read and avoid being brained by someones backback, steamer trunk, trammeled by somebody’s stroller, etc. Today somebody had a gigantic textbook — the corner was perched precariouly close to my EYE. Yes!!! Give me your seat. Now.
Snappy, your limo is reserved for you around Brooklyn!
When I go into Manhattan, I take public transportation, unless it’s in the evening then I drive in.
A few days ago I was on the train, standing up and NO ONE offered a seat! It was still early in the day, so I wasn’t exhausted at that point and didn’t mind standing. If it was late in the day, I would have clubbed someone with my puffy feet and knocked them over with my belly for a seat.
Pete, I hadn’t heard that re: proportional share of doctors. All of the docs in my family practice in suburbia or out in the sticks because they can still make plenty of money, cost of living is lower, and people are less litigious (esp in rural areas). So my statements are admittedly assumptions and extrapolations based on the experiences of people close to me and not hard data. But I also have always found it much easier to find a doc when needed outside of NYC (again, admittedly personal anecdote). In Vermont it’s no problem…when I lived in suburban CT it was no problem….
Of course there are places like rural South Dakota where no one wants to live, but that’s a different issue.
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If you think have problem finding doctor (who takes your insurance) here – I believe would be much more difficult in majority of the country.
i think it evens out tho because soooooo many doctors in nyc have boutique practices these days. it’s funny i just got a letter from beth israel hospital this week saying that they will no longer be accepting my insurance? but that they are trying to work something out, and that if their services are needed please feel free to use their services and that they will work out payment arrangements.. has anyone ever gotten a letter like that? i’ve been to beth isreal a few times, but not in a while, and found it odd that i got that letter.
*rob*
Rob, re subway seats, maybe the feeling is different for a gay man, but for me??? Nah, I would take a seat from anybody – old ladies included, if they offered it to me. Maybe I got used to it when I was injured and had a cane. It means you can read and avoid being brained by someones backback, steamer trunk, trammeled by somebody’s stroller, etc. Today somebody had a gigantic textbook — the corner was perched precariouly close to my EYE. Yes!!! Give me your seat. Now.
I’d have given you a seat, ET. I don’t like to see a pregnant lady standing on the train.
“that’s kind of metrosexual”
Lechacal–that is way Metrosexual!
Expert, you gotta learn to tell people to get their asses up! That’s what I resorted to doing when my foot was effed up.
Snappy, your limo is reserved for you around Brooklyn!
When I go into Manhattan, I take public transportation, unless it’s in the evening then I drive in.
A few days ago I was on the train, standing up and NO ONE offered a seat! It was still early in the day, so I wasn’t exhausted at that point and didn’t mind standing. If it was late in the day, I would have clubbed someone with my puffy feet and knocked them over with my belly for a seat.
Pete, I hadn’t heard that re: proportional share of doctors. All of the docs in my family practice in suburbia or out in the sticks because they can still make plenty of money, cost of living is lower, and people are less litigious (esp in rural areas). So my statements are admittedly assumptions and extrapolations based on the experiences of people close to me and not hard data. But I also have always found it much easier to find a doc when needed outside of NYC (again, admittedly personal anecdote). In Vermont it’s no problem…when I lived in suburban CT it was no problem….
Of course there are places like rural South Dakota where no one wants to live, but that’s a different issue.
“you’re prolly looking for some to get up for you now.”
to give me a subway seat?
or if they have a fetish?
cobble- the guy who offered you the seat probably thought you were pregnant with celestial fire. 🙂