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Originally Posted by Nammu
For sure there's a lack in the south and north of my state, MN. There's only one in my town and he's not taking on new patients. In the whole south of the state there's no Pdocs accepting new patients. I haven't any idea what's going on in the central twin cities area but it's a huge metro area and has many more Pdocs, but enough for the area, I don't know. The north of my state has a serious lack of any doctors.
Right now my PCP can call the one pdoc here if there's questions but that's it. Thankfully I'm stable have been for 3 yrs so all he has to do is continue the meds that were started in TX. I lived in a huge metro area there but Pdocs are hard to get especially on Medicare. I went through a community mental health unit, the docs were good but didn't stick around in three Ypres I had 6 docs.
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Hi Nammu ... Nice to talk to a Minnesotan! I used to live in the Twin Cities (until about 6 years ago). There were plenty of mental health providers in the Cities at that time. Not so sure about now. I was in the health care field myself. It used to irritate me the way all the doctors wanted to stay in the Cities. They had to use incentives to draw them out to rural areas. I live in a small town now in another state, and our health care providers come and go very quickly too as soon as their loans are "forgiven." In many ways, I can't say that I blame them, but something has to change!