Guest guest Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 In response to something Pat said in her recent post, I am aghast and mortified that 80% of patients with asthma are treated by a GP or regular pediatrician. I had no idea the rate was that high. I am well aware that a lot of folks aren't seeing a specialist - but 80%. I do know that, in the medicaid population where I live, it is really hard to get pediatricians who serve large numbers of medicaid children to refer young children to an asthma specialist. I hate to accuse any provider of being driven by profit, but I dealth with that a lot while I was working with Head Start. While I admit that singulair does a lot for about half the allergic/asthmatic children, the others really need to be under specialty care and we had to fight for every specialist referral we got. Addy Group co-owner opinions expressed herein are mine alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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