Re: GEN: Communication
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Wed Jun 14 09:12:01 2000
"I want everbody to go to the window - stick your head out and shout,
'I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!'"
Howard Beal
just my opinion - i could be wrong.
Art
At Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Paul Prior MD wrote:
>
>On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 20:54:43 -0500, jbulley@cheshire.net (Joanne
>Bulley, MD) wrote:
>
>>NH Law is that the Physician has to pay - the hourly fee, for a minimum
>>of 2 hours AND the same fee for travel time AND the patient gets to pick
>>who is the interpreter! I come from a l9ong line of left wing folks. Dad
>>got canned from a university during the McCarthy era for being active in
>>racila politics and called a commie. Yes all of these things are truly
>>#*&%!# so I guess that makes many of us "creeps" as was said. Despite
>>that fact that only a few are perhaps "filthy rich" all of us MD's are
>>getting squeezed tighter and tighter. You can't get a plumber to work
>>our hours for our pay!
>
>The movement towards socialized government in this country just never
>ceases to amaze me. I'm sorry, but I am NOT going to pay over TWICE
>what the patient's insurance company is going to pay me just to
>provide an interpreter for a patient that doesn't even bother to show
>up. That law in effect makes you pay to work. Take me to court, I
>ain't doing it.... along the same lines as when the state will
>reimburse 20% of what it costs us to buy Rhogam to give to patients -
>isn't happening in my office.
>
>This stuff only goes on because we allow it to.
>
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