I am a retired nursing professor and wife caregiver. My husband has been ill with a variety of problems for quite a few years now. We have encountered many problems with the system in health care. The latest one was this:

My husband had diarrhea all night. We called the Dr.s office that his Dr. had just changed to and was informed that my husbands Dr. was on vacation and would not be back for over a week. We were told to call the other group of physicians that he was in and they would take care of it. When I called that group, they replied that they were not taking any of his patients and the group that the Dr. had moved to was supposed to take care of it.

The problem here is failure to take responsibility for a patient’s health care. A pure gap in services not to mention access to care issue.