Letters: Not welcome at the ‘medical home’
Re “Innovate, don’t regulate,” Opinion, Feb. 25
Much as I often disagree with Jonah Goldberg, as an emergency medicine physician, I have to say he’s right to repudiate the American Academy of Pediatrics’ defense of the “medical home.”
There was a time when your pediatrician was available 24/7 and would care for your child in the hospital.
Now you are directed to the emergency room nights and weekends, and face obstacles to having your child seen in the office quickly. If your child is hospitalized, care is provided by a hospital-based group, not the family’s pediatrician.
In this light, perhaps new, non-medical home ways of delivering care deserve consideration.
Robert Shapiro, MD
Long Beach
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