Let's blame the doctors when we are asked to pay a co-pay and we say we don't have it and front desk wants to add a charge for having to send out a statement. It doesn't matter that we are fully aware that we are supposed to pay it. Let's just get mad. I mean we would never think to go anywhere else and not pay but no matter let's blame the doctors.
Let's blame the doctors when we have to sit in a waiting room full of hacking, nose blowing, throat snorkling patients blowing their fetid breath all over our personal space. How dare he/she take an extra few minutes to answer and comfort the patient in the exam room. Never mind he may be delivering devastating news. Hell! Let's just sit there and moan and groan about having had to sit in the waiting room and the doctor is at least 20 minutes late. Of course he/she had better take the time when our time comes even if it means taking an additional 15 minutes over the alloted time. If he doesn't- well let's blame the doctors for not taking the time to comfort and talk to us.
Let's blame the doctors when we cannot get an appointment for the same day. Even if we do not call and give a 24 hour cancellation notice as requested. Even if we do not bother to call if we are going to be late. Even if we set up a new patient appointment and don't bother to show and an hour of the doctor's time is wasted.
Let's blame the doctors and not the insurance companies for the rising cost of health care. Let's blame the doctors for the copays, the deductibles and out-of-pockets. Let's blame the doctors for not knowing our benefits.
Even though doctors take huge discount on all charges and the write off is ridiculous. Even though he/she may have monumental student loans from college and medical school to pay off. Even though doctors go to school for a very long time, even though doctors are expected to be perfect and not make mistakes, even though insurance companies don't pay them as they should and make their billing office beg for payment of even the most smallest service provided, even though doctors have to take discounts, writeoffs, put up with patients that are abusive,use their services like a free clinic, even though doctors have mortages to pay, rent to pay, staff to pay, benefits to pay, malpractice insurance to pay, even though their hold our very lives in their hands let's just blame the damn doctors!
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You bring up some very valid points!
ReplyDeleteIt is not the doctors, it is the process AND the people who abuse it.
Personally, I tend to blame the insurance companies, since I have had WONDERFUL doctors who would try to do ANYTHING for me and my family, if their hands were not continually tied by insurance ever changing policies and procedures!
Right now, i am battling insurance companies to see specialists for my son and get a motorized wheelchair so he can return to school. Not the docs standing in my way, but some nameless, faceless insurance adjuster.
I agree that doctors do get squeezed into expectations that are almost impossible to uphold. Especially with payments from the insurance company. I have heard many horror stories.
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