09-25-2017, 03:28 AM
One of the lead stories in the Star-Advertiser today is about the statewide shortage of doctors, and it seems particularly acute here on the Big Island:
http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/09/25...5b277dfa29
Hilo orthopedic surgeon Dr. Edward Gutteling is quoted as saying, “The community as a whole thinks they can go to Hilo Medical Center and they will be taken care of. That is their assumption but it’s not true,” he said. “They pretend to have a trauma system."
The article is free for now, but these typically go behind the pay wall later in the day.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/09/25...5b277dfa29
Hilo orthopedic surgeon Dr. Edward Gutteling is quoted as saying, “The community as a whole thinks they can go to Hilo Medical Center and they will be taken care of. That is their assumption but it’s not true,” he said. “They pretend to have a trauma system."
The article is free for now, but these typically go behind the pay wall later in the day.