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Just to lighten the mood

Posted: Sep 26, 2012

Four Doctors were talking to each other about who was the best patient to operate on. The first Doctor said, "The best person to operate on are librarians cause everything inside them is in Alphabetical order. Disagreeing, the second doctor announced that Mechanics were the best to operate on because they understand if you've got parts left over when you’re done. The third Doctor replied, “No, No you are both wrong, a technician is the best cause everything inside is color coded."
"excuse me!” broke in the fourth Doctor, “The best to operate on are politicians; they have no guts, no spine and the head and rear are interchangeable".

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Funny! Speaking of doctors, - Hubby's doctor told him

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just this morning to schedule his inguinal herniorrhaphy before the end of the year because healthcare will be rationed starting in January.

LOL, Me. Thanks! Hubby's Doc: NOT funny. How dare he - lie to his patients like that! SM

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We all have different criteria for our physicians, but if I fired a PCP for becoming reborn and filling his waiting room with nothing but religious tracts for reading material (nicely, though), you can imagine I'd have fired this one pronto for such appalling dishonesty and abuse of trust. Probably right to his face in the examining room.

Here's a link to a brief synopsis of what 2013 is bringing in case you guys haven't already refreshed your memories on this.

Addendum: I'd file a formal report with any and all regulating authorities. This has to be a serious breech of ethics.

Oh, wow. Why don't I march right down there - yeah, right.

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Oh wow - why don't I march right down there
Actually, I was grateful for the heads-up, no head-in-sand denial. Our dr. is on top of the health care changes/mandates and we trust him. What's this about him becoming "...reborn and filling his waiting room with nothing but religious tracts for reading material...?"

Yeah Right, you're in the medical field too. Why - did you not set him straight? NM

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I agree that this was entirely unethical on the part of the doctor - nm

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Uggghhh...sm - JTBB

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Given the blatantly false nature of the comment of healthcare being rationed, it sounds to me that your dear ol doc is trying to make a couple extra bucks before the year's out. The fact that people actually fall for that line of BS is what's really funny.

On further thought....sm - JTBB

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Is your hubby by any chance on Medicare? If so, that 716 billiion that was taken out by Obama came from providers and insurance companies who overcharge and will be implemented (I believe) in 2013. In other words, if your doc does that surgery before 2013 he can make more money off it than if you wait until the new year. LOL...that one sure came back to bite ya.

Lots of assumptions here - sm

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1. Dr. is not a Christian.
2. Dr. is not the surgeon.
3. Dr. is not lying.
4. Hubby is not on Medicare.

Not an assumption...sm - JTBB

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I asked if he was on Medicare. However, the doc is definitely lying.

As for the other two points...yeah..I'll take that with a grain of salt.

You don't know that - your word against a docs?

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Sorry, gotta tell ya the doc wins on this one. Doctors are in the business. They are on top of what is going on. Not some loley ol MT sitting here typing reports trying to convince people Obama care is a great thing from sites she read.

Doctors are in the know. Doctors have offices and staff. Docs need to know what is going to happen that will affect their businesses wether it be good or bad. Docs have meetings with other docs. Doc get their orders from hospital personnel (or other people in charge). Docs know a lot more about what is going to happen to their business, what the health care industry means, what Obamacare means. (i.e. docs are more knowledgeable about their own business than JTBB or anyone here)

If she said the doc is not lying then the doc is not lying. Sometimes you just have to leave it at that.

anyone's word against a doc's - sm

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Docs are not "in the business", they practice medicine. They are NOT on top of what is going on. Were that the case, they would pay their staff instead of riding expensive automobiles. Docs know virtually nothing about business. That's why they underpay their billing department and then are surprised when they lose money.

You know not whereof you speak. Doctors are as fallible as the rest of us. Make no mistake.

Wow, so not true.... - SK1

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I worked in multiple doctors' offices over the years and they were very well informed on operating a business. It is, after all, their livelihood. And if they don't have an interest in it, you can bet your bottom dollar that they employ people who stay on top of it.

And for the record, not all doctors are cheapskates. I was always very well compensated in my job.

I agree ! I worked for a practice for 20 years, and - the doctors HAD to run a business,

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and they did. Also, their staff of 25 always got a yearly bonus at Christmas, no matter what the year was like. I get so sick of people giving opinions when they are just that... opinion and not fact !!

that's right - it's my opinion - sm

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An opinion is never a fact. My post represented my opinion and nothing more. It should not be construed as the opinion of MT Stars or the world wide web.

Yes, but commenting as it IS a fact is what you appear - to be doing. Some of us see through it, though.nm

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nm

I made no such claim, and what I appear to be doing is - leaving a comment

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the only reason I "appear" to be doing anything is in the eye of the beholder. This is a message board. I am leaving my own message, as was the poster to whom I was responding. Why argue about that?

Whatever. When I ran a business, physician clients often cheated - on paying for services. I was really

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surprised and could only guess that maybe they get burned so much by their patients that they felt "entitled" to cheat themselves. Not all did by a long shot, of course, but enough that it was a strong pattern and we had to tell the engineers to tell them nothing and start collecting payment in advance. Something we NEVER did with the normal commercial business clients that were the bulk of our business.

Details: Earthquake risk assessment and structural engineering consultation business in California. I was the business manager. Those physician clients needed risk assessments and engineering drawings for how to reinforce their homes and/or other real estate against earthquake damage (including lots and lots of how-tos on rebuilding or strengthening fireplaces).

Docs (and some attorneys) soon became notorious to us for chatting with the engineers we sent out, deciding they knew enough, and then refusing to pay for the written report. Or more rarely receiving the report then disputing that they actually ordered it or some part of it, like engineering drawings for retrofitting or whatever. They never returned them even though I always asked them to and, of course, could make copies for themselves.

So, in my experience physicians are as capable of being dishonest as anyone else and in that particular sort of thing even somewhat more than average.

Nope...doc's word against the facts...nm - JTBB

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Just because he's a doc doesn't mean he wouldn't skew the facts. Just because someone has "offices and staff" does not mean they are above lying...take Romney for example.

You mean take Obama for example - your word against a docs?

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I stand by my post. Go ahead and believe the lies you are spreading, but the doc knows more than you do about healthcare and his own business.

Romney lied about what? Care to elaborate? - or just accuse with no backup? nm

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nm

Wow.... - JTBB

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You didn't build that. Taking work out of welfare. Russia is our greatest geopolitical enemy. I paid taxes..lol. I reside in Massachusetts. 716 taken out of benefits of Medicare. I will save Medicare. I won't raise taxes on the middle class...I could go on for days.

Again. What did Romney lie about? You have - not stated anything, yet we have Obama,

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caught in many lies, the biggest one being about the murders in Libya. The guy is an embarrassment, and if we vote him in again, we are fools, and we might as well shoot ourselves in the foot, or where the sun does not shine. I voted for Obama once... never again.

Didn't think you'd get an answer to that one - because they don't have one

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Took her all of 21 minutes to post a snotty reply and other snotty replies within minutes of those posts, but here it is a day later and still no answer.

That's because they don't have one.

Speaking of rationing care - My doctor told me

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six years ago that I couldn't get my heart condition treated because he was rationing my care for someone with significantly more cash;)

Cute! (nm) - SK1

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