Wednesday, August 22, 2007. 11:39 am. Posted by zbreits.
I do understand why you should still have to pay a doctor, even if they cant fix you. sometimes it is simply out of their hands, but if they take time and use there facilities to try, they still deserve to be paid.
However, if the doctor gives you a wrong diagnosis, then I feel they have no right to collect payment. And apparently, they agree with me. Recently, i was charged over $2000 for an ER visit, were some dumby doctor administered some anti-biotics (the cure for everything these days) and sent me on my way. The next day, a specialist told me how wrong the doctor's diagnosis was.
So i wrote a dispute letter to the hospital, did a little comlaining, and eventually they dropped all charges. Kinda like a money back guarentee. From my experinece, I learned that it is possible to negotiate with doctors bills, and at the very least have them itemize the cost, so that you can see why some anti-biotics can cost $2000.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007. 1:04 pm. Posted by Josh.
Sounds like you have had some luck with the medical industry. In my experience, there is usually so much red tape that it takes forever to get anything resolved (if it ever DOES get resolved).
Assuming a good doctor explained to you why he wanted to attempt a certain procedure/cure, and the probability that it wouldn't work, then perhaps they should be paid.
But if you are given a mis-diagnosis or a non-diagnosis, or if they attempt to fix something without finding the root cuase (and end up fixing nothing), I don't think the consumer should be stuck with the whole bill.
I think doctors are mostly guessing anyway.
