More stories from a flawed payment system:
. . . the insurance carrier pays off like a slot machine if a resident in a teaching hospital does a procedure in a demented, terminally ill patient with virtually no hope for reasonable quality of life. Imagine the costs to the carrier.Yes, you are naïve if you think that it is possible to practice high-quality care without thinking about your income. After all, the gardener, the house painter, and workers everywhere need to be paid for their services””why not physicians? Would you still do your job if you lost money each month?
