[mnm1]

Yup and doctors know how to milk it for the most money. Instead of sending an email with their findings, you need another appointment just to be told what could have been said over the phone or email. Worse are checkup appointments. You get a treatment then the next time you go in for ... What exactly? To make sure that saline injection didn't kill you? It's fraud and total bullshit and wastes everyone's time. I don't blame doctors, I blame our lack of a proper healthcare system in which they need to get theirs because only certain things are billable (the phone call or email aren't). Doctors know that every trivial office visit they are making serious money. My copay is $50 for a specialist. That's for usually only a few minutes and hides the egregious sums that insurance pays. Yes, their time is valuable but so is my money and paying exorbitant amounts to see a doctor who says nothing and does nothing other than send you for a test or making sure you're still alive after your last dose of an over the counter pain reliever (I'm not making that up) is fraud, fraud we all pay for as a nation because we can't have a proper healthcare system where patients aren't used for profit and lives are saved for the sake of saving lives not lost for the sake of profits.