Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/11
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Ordinarily, I hold my tongue when it seems that someone is on a
fishing expedition (a post designed to act as "bait"), but in this
case, the author's tone and aggression warrant a point-by-point reply.
From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
>If the medical/legal professionals are offended by our >disdain for
"dr./lawyer camera bashing",
Probably about as offended as you'd be if I told a story about how ten
roles of film with irreplacable photos were ruined because all lab
supervisors who are supposed to be helping their workers are always in
the other room smoking cigars and reading dirty magazines. You can
generalize about anybody... that doesn't make it true or fair.
>imagine how offended this poor photographer/lab
>supervisor was when a local E.R. doctor was paid $250 >for FIVE
minutes observation by my insurance, THEN the >dumbass sent ME a bill
for an additional $200, clearly >in violation of my
>HMO regs!!
It was probably his "dumbass" billing clerk rather than an attempt at
a personal attack on your bank account. And, depending on your plan,
you might have violated your HMO's arcane regulations by having the
nerve to go the ER for anything less than a gunshot wound to the
chest. Many HMO's in my neck of the woods do not consider dehydration
an emergency.
>$450 to tell me I had an intestinal infection and was >dehydrated -
>WHICH I TOLD HIM WHEN I ARRIVED!!!
It does not matter what you tell a doctor. If you were not correct
and he blindly followed your suggestion and gave you the wrong drug,
for instance, you can turn around and sue him. He is risking his
licensure and livelihood in our litigous soceity with each patient he
sees and thus must make his own decisions. He doesn't deserve to be
compensated for that in your mind?
>So be offended....I too have eight years of higher
>education, 20 years of experience,
Try eleven years of higher education, minimum, as long as you've
started counting.
There are plenty of people who make a lot more money than you do for a
hell of a lot less work than an ER doc puts in. As you seem to have
figured out for yourself, life is not fair. Blindly lashing out at a
profession that has managed to help the United States become one of
the healthiest countries in the world serves no purpose.
If your beef is with collectors, look around on the LUG. There are
plenty of offenders who are not members of the legal or medical
professions.
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