As recently as the small town where I grew up in the 1980s, yes, we had the local gp/fp doctor’s home phone number and my mother would call him in an emergency rather than engage the 45 minute drive to hospital. My parents, poor small farmers, did not carry insurance that would cover an ambulance ride.
As recently as the small town where I grew up in the 1980s, yes, we had the local gp/fp doctor’s home phone number and my mother would call him in an emergency rather than engage the 45 minute drive to hospital. My parents, poor small farmers, did not carry insurance that would cover an ambulance ride.