🚀 go-pugleaf

As Doctors, Dentists and Hospitals are becoming greedier and greedier
everyday,
it has become more important for the patients, to scrutinize their
services.

Agree and give whatever the doctors/hospitals say, that is the
mentality of
almost all of the people. But we need to understand that, they are
profit driven 
just like any other business and should be dealt with that in mind. 
Unfortunately, people become sick not by their choice and they have to
see a doctor. Doctors and hospitals are only trying to exploit this
situation, 
since they know, you need their help desperately.

The following are 2 incidents that happened to me and to one of my
friends.

1. I went a hospital in chapel Hill, NC for a small bump in my neck.
Since the bump 
did not go after a few weeks of antibiotics, the doctor went for a
chest x-ray. 
The doctor said that the x-ray was unclear and that I may have
Hodgkin's disease
(He should not have told me this before a full evaluation.) and I need
CAT scan
of the chest.
Now this is the part I did not understand. Instead of taking the CAT
scan of the 
chest alone which is necessary to determine the illness, he ordered a
CAT scan of 
the stomach also.  The cost, $800 extra, for nothing.

2. This happened to a friend of mine who went to a dentist in Raleigh,
NC
to have his teeth cleaned. The doctor was able to fit him with a gold
filling .
The cost $1200.00


Lesson:

Ask the doctor, the need for each TESTS and its COST.  Because you are
one who 
is going to pay for it.

jjk.