Patients left in limbo as more doctors flee Puerto Rico

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Medicare and Medicade payments are either too late, too low, or never arrive. It doesn't say where they are fleeing to but insinuates it's the mainland USA.

The island of 3.5 million people now has only two pediatric urologists, one orthopedist specializing in ankle and feet, one pediatric cardiologist, and a handful of geneticists and endocrinologists. It can take a year to see a specialist, Ramos said.

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