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Comfortable-Scar4643 t1_je5dth2 wrote

Could it be diet, too? Access to healthy food? Lifestyle?

Or is it overwhelmingly access to healthcare?

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UncleCustard t1_je6brzf wrote

Access to healthcare would be the main contributing factor and I would even say GOOD quality healthcare is not really an option here at all. Noble and Baystate are laughable at best. My mom recently had a kidney transplant at UMass medical center in Worcester. Amazing experience. Amazing facility. I walked in the first time many years ago to UMass and went "oh those hospitals on TV aren't fantasy places."

I can't even begin to tell you the horror stories of baystate. But I'll sum it up by the time a doctor dropped an iPad on my head and started laughing uncontrollably. I was there for a concussion.

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nixiedust t1_je71774 wrote

UMass Worcester is amazing but Brigham & Women's was the closest I've seen to a TV hospital. Every doctor was like an international celebrity model. The cath lab looked like the Starship Enterprise.

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hour_of_the_rat t1_je7josw wrote

I have been in and out of Baystate my entire life. I have always liked the care. One of their GIs saved my life with an operation none of his colleagues said would work.

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UncleCustard t1_je7qguj wrote

You probably wouldn't have to keep going back if it was better. /s

I'm glad they have helped you. It's not ALL bad. The doctors at least have an associates degree there.

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starsandfrost t1_je7n7xk wrote

> I can't even begin to tell you the horror stories of baystate. But I'll sum it up by the time a doctor dropped an iPad on my head and started laughing uncontrollably. I was there for a concussion.

Can confirm. I was told by my Baystate PCP that their office couldn't/wouldn't diagnose or treat strep throat. I can't imagine how it is if you have cancer or something.

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