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Dr. Joseph Gurri, a surgeon at MIMA, also provided an upbeat assessment.And he was careful to point out that numbers don't tell the whole story.
"When you are just looking at numbers, there is minimal impact," he said, noting that last year he performed only four surgeries at Palm Bay hospital."If you have 20 guys like me, what is the loss of my services?"
Rather than a single reason for doctors dropping privileges at Palm Bay, Gurri suggested, there are multiple reasons, mirroring dozens of medical markets elsewhere.
Not only, for example, do national shortages of specialists trickle down to Brevard, he said, but cutbacks in Medicare and other insurance reimbursements place similar financial pressures on physicians in every community.
As a result, "in general, all of our doctors are fairly strained with (patient) volumes," he said."People are busy and under significant workloads," choosing to concentrate services in the Melbourne area instead, Gurri said.
Should recruitment prove successful in Palm Bay, he added, "I suspect there will be a re-expansion of hospital privileges."
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