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On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:05:16 -0400, the infamous Steve Ackman
scrawled the following: In , on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:25:11 -0400, Proctologically Violated©®, wrote: malquoted stuff snipped What a racket. I went to a walk-in clinic for antibiotics and a tetanus shot. The bill was over $500, $152 just for the 45 seconds it took the doc to lay eyeballs on the cut, and write the scrip. Must be REAL nice to be able to bill at $12,160 per hour. And people wonder why I'm cynical of the medical "profession"... And that was WITH insurance. The mind boggles at what the bill would have been if I'd been paying cash! The insurance company is probably going to pay $35 of that. P.S: Why on Earth did you go see a doctor for anything less than a near-amputation? You're a lot safer with a bar of soap & hot water (or some betadine), clean cloth, a tube of bacitracin (or triple antibiotic, and a cloth bandaid, Steve. A client's daughter just died from a hospital staph infection just after she successfully overcame pancreatic cancer. Hospitals are for the dying. Let's hope the walk-in clinics are safer. -- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. -- Helen Keller |
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