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According to a number of people in the medical profession, the general consensus in the field is that DC has fewer very experienced doctors in many specialties.

Really? As someone with family members who have needed to see a variety of top notch specialists over the years, and who have been willing to travel to other cities if needed (but they didn't need to), I've found that Greater DC has a decent number of highly regarded specialists given the size of our population. We have G'town/GWU research hospitals, NIH, and three top notch general hospitals in Sibley, Suburban, and INOVA Fairfax, all of which are affiliated with many top notch specialists.

That said, I agree that DC should beef up it's medical education facilities, along with other areas of STEM, as those are the fields of the future.

Having top medical institutions is all fine, however, if large chucks of the population do not have access to those top institutions, they're useless to most.

The vast majority of these top specialists take insurance and with Obamacare, in 2014 anyone who really wants insurance will have it.

On the rare occasion where it might help to have the country's best specialists looking at something, its no big deal to drive an hour.

Virtually anyone who lives to a ripe age will need those specialists many times before they die. We all die of something and whatever we die of usually requires lots of care from specialists.

by Falls Church on Jul 23, 2012 6:16 pm • link • report

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