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From: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spyridon Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: People gouging for money (Doctors!!!)
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Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 17:25:18 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 19 17:25:18 1985
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>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

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