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Originally posted by Sunshine.
At the same time, we value our doctor's services. We want the people who work on our bodies to be comfortable and not have to worry about money. So we're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
People sue doctors frequently, so doctors need malpractice insurance. Then doctors raise their prices to pay for that malpractice insurance w/o cutting into their income. I think as much as 10c of every $1 goes towards malpractice. Then they also go overboard with testing (which adds to the price) in order to avoid making mistakes that would set them back millions.
It's hard to win.  |
Not an excuse. Don't you think countries with national healthcare systems have to have a procedure for dealing with malpractice suits, maybe we should be thinking about those doctors making so many mistakes that they are having to charge sick people way over what their services are worth and they are obviously worth even less if they need that high insurance. Do you think Doctors in other countries are living in squalor or something? It's an extremely well paid job in most countries.
I'm glad to be on the UK system, the American system both saddens and angers me. Healthcare should be a basic human right.
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Originally posted by chilicheese01
This is a bit dramatic. Surgeries like this do not cause excruciating pain after they're completed. If anything, he probably felt drugged and light-headed.
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Have you had an emergency appendectomy? Cause I have and excruciating is just about the right word for waking up after any major, invasive surgery.
this ****ing country 
