give you the best care possible. If you don't like his care you will go somewhere
and he will eventually go out of business. Not so with Dr. CORPORATION. Lets
say he does less than quality care with you and you wind up in the emergency
room. Well chances are the Corporation owns the emergency room and the
hospital. In a sense they are rewarded no matter what type of care you are
given. Lets say your doctor sends you for an inordinate amount of tests or
x-rays. Again more medicine is not necessarily good medicine but its a good bet
that the corporation owns the Laboratory and the Radiology Department. In fact
many specialists are now owned by corporations so the Orthopedic Surgeons
you get sent to for a new hip or knee is also a corporate employee.
This drastically changes the economics of your medical visit. When you visit a
private practice doc you are paying for the nurse the phone bill and maybe the
rent. When you visit DR. CORPORATION there is much more to be paid for. You
now have administrators, human resource departments ,computer departments
and new equipment. You have to pay for the inefficiencies of a large
organization. You pay for the uncollected bills (most organizations collect less
than 50% of their owed money). You can see that DR CORPORATION has a lot
more on his mind than your symptoms. In fact his main job is now production not
health care. In order to be as efficient as possible DR CORPORATION is forbidden
to care for his patients in the hospital. Ask your doctor the last time he worked in
a hospital. For many its been longer than 10 years. If you don't work with the
sickest patients you begin to lose your skills. Imagine taking your car to a
mechanic who only did the easiest of repairs. Wouldn't you be afraid he was
missing something important. DR CORPORATION only sees the easiest of patients
and because of his high overhead he only has a few minutes in which to see
them.
Sure DR CORPORATION may be convenient and he even may be a nice person.
So are the people at MCDONALDS. But would you want them in charge of your
Health?
