Part of the problem is our fault as physicians and health-care providers.

People are taking two, three, sometimes four different medications at a time to relieve their symptoms quickly and effectively because they are increasingly unsatisfied with their allergy medications. This can be a very costly, dangerous and frequently ineffective solution to treating bothersome symptoms.

It's typical for the physicians to contact the health department when there is something like this that's contagious. Any communicable disease, we try to follow up on.

It is driving up the cost of health care because physicians are facing more challenges.

Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.