What the heck have they done to our medical system???? Hearing stuff like this winds me up every time, and it happens more and more often.
If it took a month to get a hamburger and it was missing the meat, that so-called business would vanish. A few years ago I had a 10 minute consult with an orthopod and was billed $525. 10 minutes.
That's $3000/hr that they're billing for that doctor's time. He gets paid ... $100/hr? 
For that kind of money, there should be no mistakes. Ever.
Years ago I wanted to open a medical scanning service in a strip mall - just amortize and maintain some expensive machines, and all the business you could ever want? Easy peasy, no need to charge thousands of dollars a pop, run it 12 hours a day, book 'em through, seemed like an obvious opportunity since the hospitals were so slow and expensive. But nope, the legal costs alone made it a stupid idea. Finally, someone tackled it all and opened one last year.
They can build and deliver an entire automobile from parts made all over the world for $30,000, but they can't do a biopsy and analysis for much less, and they can't even get that right. Imagine how immensely complicated the whole process is ... NOT!
And the people running the whole show are the highly educated and ambitious ones.
I've been getting weary of intelligent well-paid people "explaining" to me how it's ok that THEY screw up because that's just the way it is - it's ME that should calm down and accept the screwup. That's so vapid. So empty. These people claim to be sharp and capable, and they don't even see the forehead-smacking stupidity of their "explanations".
Sheesh, what's so hard? Take a sample and analyze it. Who can't do THAT?
But yeah, stay positive. The other choice is no good.
If it took a month to get a hamburger and it was missing the meat, that so-called business would vanish. A few years ago I had a 10 minute consult with an orthopod and was billed $525. 10 minutes.
That's $3000/hr that they're billing for that doctor's time. He gets paid ... $100/hr? For that kind of money, there should be no mistakes. Ever.Years ago I wanted to open a medical scanning service in a strip mall - just amortize and maintain some expensive machines, and all the business you could ever want? Easy peasy, no need to charge thousands of dollars a pop, run it 12 hours a day, book 'em through, seemed like an obvious opportunity since the hospitals were so slow and expensive. But nope, the legal costs alone made it a stupid idea. Finally, someone tackled it all and opened one last year.
They can build and deliver an entire automobile from parts made all over the world for $30,000, but they can't do a biopsy and analysis for much less, and they can't even get that right. Imagine how immensely complicated the whole process is ... NOT!
And the people running the whole show are the highly educated and ambitious ones.
I've been getting weary of intelligent well-paid people "explaining" to me how it's ok that THEY screw up because that's just the way it is - it's ME that should calm down and accept the screwup. That's so vapid. So empty. These people claim to be sharp and capable, and they don't even see the forehead-smacking stupidity of their "explanations". Sheesh, what's so hard? Take a sample and analyze it. Who can't do THAT?
But yeah, stay positive. The other choice is no good.
