Another doc bites the dust!

I got a letter today that my Integrative MD is leaving the practice. I have no idea where he'll be going/what he'll be doing and will have to do some asking around to find out. It seems that my drs. are all constantly leaving town (I hope this one isn't). One good thing about being in this major metropolitan area with a lot of hospitals (with many of them teaching hospitals) is that there are a lot of drs. to chose from compared to people I know in more remote places who have little choice and have to travel far to see specialists. The bad thing is that the drs. are constantly leaving, sometimes they just switch hospitals, but often they leave the area. Since my first cancer in 1998 I'm on my third gyn onc, since my 2nd cancer in 2004 I'm on my 2nd rad onc and now will probably be on my 2nd Integrative MD. I've only had one med onc so far though (since 2004) and have had the same internist for years (only I don't ever go see her -I say sheepishly-) and I've been seeing the same dentist since the early 1980's. Before I needed gyn onc's and before I started fertility treatments to get pregnant with Z. I think I had a new gynecologist every year or two (and the one I had when pg with Z. left town less than a year after she was born). The other day A. was reading something about there being less maternity beds in our area than there were 10 years ago although the demand has stayed the same (with a local hospital considering closing it's OB unit soon) and that nearly a third of the area's OB/GYN's have left the area or stopped practicing. There are various reasons for all this, many of which involve money and insurance. As a patient it's very disconcerting when you have to continually readjust to new physicians, not because you made a choice to change drs. but because this change has been thrust upon you.