[recursive]

Calling it a "few dollars" is probably disingenuous, although we don't know the personal circumstances. For many, this could be a "life-changing" quantity of money.

[az226]

Let’s say the cost is $1k per day. That’s say $50k over the 7 weeks.

A doctor probably ends up with a $10M or bigger nest egg in retirement. At 4% withdrawal rate, that’s $400k per year, or $33.33k.

Spread the $50k expense over say 30 years, that’s $140 less per month.

So that means the spend would be $33.2k instead. The difference here isn’t going to register for the household budget.

Obviously a lot of assumptions, but this is the pragmatic view.

[maxerickson]

You are probably misusing disingenuous. It implies dishonesty (so intention).

[recursive]

Yeah. "Misleading" is maybe better.