Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!akgua!akgub!usl!sigma From: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spyridon Triantafyllopoulos) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: People gouging for money (Doctors!!!) Message-ID: <224@usl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 17:25:18 EST Article-I.D.: usl.224 Posted: Sat Jan 19 17:25:18 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 06:26:27 EST Organization: USL, Lafayette, LA Lines: 28 >There has been a recent discussion about how lawyers gouge their clients, >and society in general, for their own profit. I would suggest that there >is a group even worse: > >Doctors. > >What brought this on: We recently received a bill from a hospital for $7700+ >for a 7 week stay for my Great Aunt (92 yrs. old). The Doctors at the hospital >performed every test they could, just to build up a bill. Still does not beat a (Lebanese) friend of mine. The poor guy fainted or something while in the swimming pool. They took him in the local hospital (NO NAMES), and for 3 days stay, 2 in the Intensive Care Unit, the guy paid $7,000.00 (that is SEVEN GRAND). The funny thing is that I was with him the day he got the bill. A neat computer listing of all supplies and services, including Kleenex Tissue and Impossibly Large Quantities of Medicine, was attached. The final note: they even took his passport until he paid. NOT FOR PROFIT, EH!!!! -- Spiros Spiros Triantafyllopoulos <> USENET {ut-sally, akgua}!usl!sigma Computer Science Dept, USL <> CSNet TriantafyllopoulosS%usl@csnet-relay.ARPA "This file contains no opinions whatsoever"