[BITList] Honesty

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hugh
the doctors you mention sound honest and normal – extremely rare in the land of the free, etc.
to be a physician in the US [they never call themselves doctors – too common] is literally permission to print money.
one of the many, many ways they do this is to pass patients around so more do the same thing, it’s called ‘referrals’.
it’s like having your car repaired at one garage, then they recommend [nay, make an appointment for you] to go to another garage so they can check over the same problem – because they have a better car-lift, for example.
doctors here start out making $120,000 p.a. and after that sky’s the limit. but for many that isn’t enough hence medical fraud to the tune of abt $50 BILLION per year. 
To put that into perspective, the US spends more than all the other nations put together on intelligence gathering. there are abt 30 separate government intelligence agencies, the yearly cost is estimated to be $80 billion, yet medical fraud is in this range at $50 billion!
I find that astonishing.
where US physicians are concerned greed has no limit..................................
colin


From: HUGH 
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 2:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [BITList] Honesty

Colin,

The late and much missed Dr Weir once said to me, "I could prescribe something for it, but these things are no bloody good. Better to go home and take a hot bath."  Another time, "If I could cure the cold, I wouldn't be sitting here." Once he suggested I go and live north of the Arctic Circle - he recommended Norway. Our nasal passages, he explained, are better suited to that kind of climate.  However, he declined to arrange the journey.  Dr Laurie, who later became his successor as head of the practice, sent me to have my shoulder X-rayed.  When I returned for the verdict, he gazed at the films then gave it to me straight. "What you've got," he said, "is what we in the medical profession call a sore shoulder."  Dr Laurie died a couple of years ago. We played curling with him a few times - he had the oddest way of delivering a stone I'd ever seen.

Hugh.


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