Because: Doctors now insist on getting test results before they give medicine. My GP referred me to several doctors who wouldn't even give me an appointment until I had gone to their lab and taken tests. They say it's "HIPPA Protocol". I say that they are running me around to every department they can and billing my insurance company and Medicare for as much money as they can possibly get out of me. I am looking for another GP but many of them have left this area because ... well ... they had integrity; they wanted to 'heal the sick'. The others are in a hospital "system". i haven't found any sole practitioners who take Medicare here (Sussex County, Delmarva Peninsula, Delaware) Peggy