02-05-2012, 06:47 PM
Not saying there is outright collusion, but when a clinic has a machine that costs $10k a week for example it is going to try and recover that expense. That can be 10 $1k procedures, or 5 $2k procedures. And in many clinical settings the doctors make more or less depending on how the clinic does overall. Or they are in many cases hospital employees, not independent as used to be common, and subject to influence from their employer.
And it can be easy to comply with a request from a patient spooked by the scare tactics and hoopla around breast cancer to have the most advanced diagnostic procedure instead of a normal mammogram.
P.S. 15 months cancer free, looking for many more.
And it can be easy to comply with a request from a patient spooked by the scare tactics and hoopla around breast cancer to have the most advanced diagnostic procedure instead of a normal mammogram.
P.S. 15 months cancer free, looking for many more.