You are right – proper primary care would fix this. The problem is that this country doesn’t pay the cost for true primary care not even under Obamacare, the doctors don’t make enough to go into that specialty and the follow-up care for items found is to expensive…….
So the clinic got new patients that couldn’t afford the ER before but needed to have been seen years ago. That is not the “fault” of Regional – it is the fault of our system