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Originally Posted by Talk Host
You can say that again. Doctors can frame it however they like, the fact remains that we are not only patients, we are also customers. We are their book of business. They are required by good business practice and ethics to treat us as both.
It is my firm belief that doctors have turned the health insurance industry into a money mill for themselves. If looked at under a microscope, that is called thievery.
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Jan,
I quite disagree. There are doctors and there are doctors. It is the patients job to find one that suits his or her needs. It has been my privilege to know and consult many excellent,dedicated doctors in my life time for my daughter who has practically grown up at Cincinnati Children's, and recently for me with a bout of Cancer. You cannot say that doctors that practice at large teaching hospitals are greedy. They earn much less than doctors in private practice and are the cutting edge( no pun intended) in their knowledge.
I think that because many doctors are so very smart and educated and they interact with us when we feel frightened and are very vulnerable, that they are sometimes maligned because of our general fear. I am not canonizing all of them, but they do have a long haul when it comes to education, a long, VERY expensive haul.
Just my humble opinion.
GG