If you had a Dr. who made housecalls, would that be a good thing or a bad thing?

I would love it because as you know, without a car, if myself or my son is sick, we have to wait not only for my husband to get home, but in a very uncomfortable chair in the waiting room, sometimes up to an hour or more, before we get in. with a headache or fever, that makes for a miserable time. As for my house, I don't care, I am sick or caring for a sick child, my house is not going to look well scrubbed..

To be honest I thought Doctors did house calls everywhere. I guess I was wrong. We have a medical centre here that has doctors available 24/7 and can be called out at any hour.

Oh, it would be so nice! When I don't feel well, the last thing I want to do is make sure I look presentable, get in the car and go sit in a doctor's waiting room. If a doctor would come to me, I'd use a little of that energy to shove things into drawers and sweep the middle of the floor... maybe. Doctors should know that houses get dirty when we don't feel up to keeping them clean. I'd love to find a doctor who made house calls, in other words!

In this day and age if a doctor made house calls it would probably cost a huge amount. But if a doctor came to my house it would make me alittle nervous having him/her in my home. I have been so very sick in the past I would have been very thankful to have a doctor come to my home.

I think that doctors that make house calls would be wonderful. That practice was a thing of the past by the time that I was born; it would be great if general practitioners did revive it. If a doctor did come to see you when you were ill, I don't think that he or she would be focusing on how organized your house was (unless, of course, the situation was so bad that it was likely the cause of your ill health).

Here in the Philippines, that never happens. You have to go to his clinic again after a day or two of taking what he prescribed. It would have been better, if it's that way.

I think it's a good thing. Some people are too sick to be able to drive to a clinic. Sure they can take a cab or use public transport but when you're feeling sick, you're not thinking straight and are not really able to concentrate on your surroundings. Something might happen to you on the way to the clinic and the people around you are complete strangers and may not be so willing to help. If the doctor makes housecalls, that would be better for such people. But it might also be a little dangerous for the doctor as these days some people may play pranks on you by asking you to go to a house where nobody is sick. The doctor may also end up getting harmed or kidnapped once he enters a house. It's just not really easy to trust people these days.

Maggiepie has a housecall doctor. He/they do come, she's also been x-rayed in her bed...

I think that it would depend upon the situation. If I was very sick or it could be an extremely contagious disease, then I think it would be wonderful to have the doctor make housecalls. When I am that sick, I would not even care whether or not the house was a mess, and the doctor really shouldn't judge me for that, especially knowing how sick I am.

Yes I think that because it is one of my doctors then I would think I could entrust my doctor coming to see me at home while I was sick. I think that a doctor that does house calls would be cool as I normally dread dragging myself to a doctors office when I feel miserable. I think most doctors would not be concerned with how our home looked, if anything I could make up the excuse, that it is because I am sick that I can't tidy up. lol