No disrespect to your son meant here, just wanted to say that first off. That said, regardless of how much time he spends or how much time he spends studying in school, or how good he is at what he does, or how much time any other doctor spends doing the same things, or for that matter how much time someone in any other occupation spends doing things associated with their job, the charges being levied on people by hospitals and doctors in general is ridiculous. Granted they have expenses just like every one else, and I know they also have to pay for liability insurance, but even mechanics like myself have to deal with basically the same things. In many cases a minimum of 2 million in coverage is required for me to work in alot of places, and that ain't cheap. Even then a fair labor rate can make a man a pretty good living. I've been all over in the past few years from $84 to $45 an hour depending on what equipment I was working on, or who I was working for, and have done pretty good until the economy bottomed and it hit me hard and I had to lower my rates to keep working.....but you don't see any doctors lowering their rates to keep in business do you???????? For me when I buy parts I only markup maybe 15% at the most. Still I hear things steming from situations like this post mentions where a doctor spends one hour and gives someone an $18 dollar shot and the bill is in the tens of thousands of dollars. HOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE REGARDLESS OF HOW MUCH TIME THAT DOCTOR SPENT IN SCHOOL OR HOW MANY HOURS HE SPENT TAKING CARE OF SOMEONE, OR ANYTHING ELSE FOR THAT MATTER??????? Heck at that rate I too could be driving around in a $100,000 car and living in a million dollar home. Instead people like me work on the equipment that built the school that guy went to, that built that guys home, his office, his car,his health club, his golf club, the roads he drives and bridges he crosses to get to these places, etc, etc. We did it in the heat of the summer, in the cold of the winter, in 4 inches of dust or 4 inches of mud.........Thing is for us we simply see it as part of the job and rarely will you really hear us fuss about the conditions we work under to make sure guys like that doctor can have their expensive toys......all bought by charging us poor shmucks a whole days pay for a simple $2 shot and 5 minutes of their precious time........ In the end it just doesn't make any more sense to me than the extortionist rates charged by lawyers............But that's just my .02 for what it's worth......
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