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Eliot Estabrook of Milford is a retired university employee.

How many times in recent years have you tried to phone your medical provider and instead heard something to the effect of: “Your call is important to us, please stay on the line”? And you wait and wait.

How many times in recent years has your primary care provider changed, if you can find one? How long have you had to wait for a medical provider that is needed urgently? Days, weeks, months or in some cases more than a year? How many times have you needed urgent care at a walk-in and they were closed that day, or even permanently ?

And yet Ban

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