A Good Doctor is Hard to Find - Paging Dr. Blanchar (Town Topics, Volume 17, Issure 12, Dedember 2004) He still makes house calls - already enough said. Dr. Richard Blanchar is a different kind of doctor, not by medical standards, but by his relentless commitment to serving his patients. This local physician has been practicing medicine for over 20 years, served at most local area hospitals in both internal medicine and emergency care, and at Bayview General Medicine, overlooking the Intracoastal waterway. His success, however, has not altered his genuine passion for and dedication to his craft. House calls - Dr. Blanchar makes them. Walk-ins - Dr. Blanchar takes them. Follow up calls - Dr. Blanchar is committed to them. He's a country-style doctor with big city credentials. Dr. Blanchar graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Florida and to this day completes more than 100 hours of continuing medical education each year. "Medicine today is far more advanced than it was 5 years ago," Blanchar explains. "And the breakthroughs continue to happen. I have a responsibility to my patients to keep up with the latest technologies in healthcare and medicines. I will always be a student of medicine until I stop practicing." We have a ll become disenchanted with a medical industry desensitized by an HMO assembly line mentality. It only takes one visit to Dr. Blanchar's office to realize the rules are different here. Dr. Blanchar's most important patient is the one he's treating. "Medical problems do not lend themselves to slick, quick sound byte type answers," he said. "It should always be a personal, private, face-to-face, sit down where it's quiet, private and comfortable." After analyzing the practices of Dr. Richard Blanchar, the diagnosis is obvious: Dr. Blanchar has a cure for the industry ... it's called caring!