Jeannie Oliver has seen the same doctor, Dr. George Smith, a physician at Community Health Northwest Florida , at least four times a year for 30 years. She’s even told him that if he ever left the nonprofit community health center established in 1992, she would follow him wherever he went.
Well, Oliver, 82, better get her dancing shoes on. Because Smith, who has been a physician at Community Health Northwest Florida since 1994, is retiring and plans to do some ballroom dancing with his wife. Maybe she can tag along.
“He’s the best,” said Oliver, who is now insured though she had no insurance when she first began seeing Smith back in the Clinton years. “I wake up in the morning wondering how I’m going to get through life without him. I was thinking I’ve seen him about 120 times. He is the most wonderful person, and so compassionate and understanding.”…