Dr. Joe Prosser, medical director at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Belleville, said health care services have grown greatly in the area since 1992 but that the loss of doctors to other states or other parts of this state has started to weaken the ability to provide those services.
Prosser said the area first lost its cranial neurosurgeons and now is losing other specialists, all because of substantial increases in medical malpractice insurance coverage in the area.
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