General Discussion

Amarillo in 1983 and my sister, who is a nurse practitioner, is still there. The whole area is a study of what you get when an authoritarian zeitgeist governs a society.

But, there is a point in your experience of which everyone should be aware. Many little doc-in-the-boxes have been bought up by hospitals and so they can charge emergency room type fees. There should be a sign or notice near the entrance. I'm sure that this varies by state, Florida's law, HB 1157, was passed in 2021. Especially in towns like Amarillo, where there are basically only two hospital corporation systems for hundreds of miles in any direction, the need to keep profits rising has driven the corporations to explore ever more inventive means of profit making.