More fun with the medical industry
And I'll write you up on Yelp
This old fuck knows about Yelp?
5 minutes later I get the 200$ price and they take the blood. The tech is telling me he is just a pawn in the game of life and I say aren't we all? I thanked him for his service.
NOC but health care delivery needs to be fixed.
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God help me if I write the whole story of dealing with the wife's previous allergist office where apathy, incompetence, and ignorance all went to retire. I miss my doctor and my PPO that I was told I could keep. At least we are now at a competent practice it's just that we've gotta drive to across LA for services.
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Engaging with the health care industry in any capacity is an exercise in frustration and rage for me.
It was never enjoyable, but now it's simply excruciating.
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I bet if we wen’t do single payer we’d see a huge uptick in customer service and competence.UW_Doog_Bot said:God help me if I write the whole story of dealing with the wife's previous allergist office where apathy, incompetence, and ignorance all went to retire. I miss my doctor and my PPO that I was told I could keep. At least we are now at a competent practice it's just that we've gotta drive to across LA for services.
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Quest Diagnostics will do it for much less than whatever you're med people will charge you. I just googled quest for Temecula and found four locations
Several years ago complained to my doc that they were charging too much ($280) for standard CBC/lipid panel/whatever, and that Quest down the street would do it for $112. Doc admitted that they send their blood samples to Quest anyway, so they were charging $168 extra to draw the blood and take it down the street. More, actually, since the $112 from Quest was to draw the blood too in addition to testing. Another doc told me it was in my interest to get blood drawn with them instead of Quest because they would be inputtting the data directly into their files, and they could then easily make pretty graphs to show me how my numbers changed over time. So they were justifying a 150% markup for data entry. -
That's great because I was at Quest in TemeculaBearsWiin said:Quest Diagnostics will do it for much less than whatever you're med people will charge you. I just googled quest for Temecula and found four locations
Several years ago complained to my doc that they were charging too much ($280) for standard CBC/lipid panel/whatever, and that Quest down the street would do it for $112. Doc admitted that they send their blood samples to Quest anyway, so they were charging $168 extra to draw the blood and take it down the street. More, actually, since the $112 from Quest was to draw the blood too in addition to testing. Another doc told me it was in my interest to get blood drawn with them instead of Quest because they would be inputtting the data directly into their files, and they could then easily make pretty graphs to show me how my numbers changed over time. So they were justifying a 150% markup for data entry.
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Try one of the other onesRaceBannon said:
That's great because I was at Quest in TemeculaBearsWiin said:Quest Diagnostics will do it for much less than whatever you're med people will charge you. I just googled quest for Temecula and found four locations
Several years ago complained to my doc that they were charging too much ($280) for standard CBC/lipid panel/whatever, and that Quest down the street would do it for $112. Doc admitted that they send their blood samples to Quest anyway, so they were charging $168 extra to draw the blood and take it down the street. More, actually, since the $112 from Quest was to draw the blood too in addition to testing. Another doc told me it was in my interest to get blood drawn with them instead of Quest because they would be inputtting the data directly into their files, and they could then easily make pretty graphs to show me how my numbers changed over time. So they were justifying a 150% markup for data entry.
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The 200 bucks isn't the issue, the 700 was. I went to three of the four on my three trips. My doctor and his office were more to blame anywayBearsWiin said:
Try one of the other onesRaceBannon said:
That's great because I was at Quest in TemeculaBearsWiin said:Quest Diagnostics will do it for much less than whatever you're med people will charge you. I just googled quest for Temecula and found four locations
Several years ago complained to my doc that they were charging too much ($280) for standard CBC/lipid panel/whatever, and that Quest down the street would do it for $112. Doc admitted that they send their blood samples to Quest anyway, so they were charging $168 extra to draw the blood and take it down the street. More, actually, since the $112 from Quest was to draw the blood too in addition to testing. Another doc told me it was in my interest to get blood drawn with them instead of Quest because they would be inputtting the data directly into their files, and they could then easily make pretty graphs to show me how my numbers changed over time. So they were justifying a 150% markup for data entry.
Thanks for the hot tip
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You could just go without
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This is my first contact with the medical industrial complex in decades
I'm pretty healthy in general but they got their hooks in me on blood pressure
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The inevitable result of daily squabbling with HondoRaceBannon said:This is my first contact with the medical industrial complex in decades
I'm pretty healthy in general but they got their hooks in me on blood pressure -
I laff.DerekJohnson said:
The inevitable result of daily squabbling with HondoRaceBannon said:This is my first contact with the medical industrial complex in decades
I'm pretty healthy in general but they got their hooks in me on blood pressure -
lifestyle choiceDerekJohnson said:
The inevitable result of daily squabbling with HondoRaceBannon said:This is my first contact with the medical industrial complex in decades
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HH is a stress relief. Hondo is a speed bag
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almost the entire health industry is a big scam. They spend most of their time making up new diseases for people to worry about. If all you do is not smoke, keep your weight down, exercise, stay off drugs and heavy drinking, there is nothing to worry about. Of course, that means everybody here (we?) needs the fucking scam!
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If we’re bashing heavy drinking, I’m out.ApostleofGrief said:almost the entire health industry is a big scam. They spend most of their time making up new diseases for people to worry about. If all you do is not smoke, keep your weight down, exercise, stay off drugs and heavy drinking, there is nothing to worry about. Of course, that means everybody here (we?) needs the fucking scam!
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We homeys.MikeDamone said:
If we’re bashing heavy drinking, I’m blacking out.ApostleofGrief said:almost the entire health industry is a big scam. They spend most of their time making up new diseases for people to worry about. If all you do is not smoke, keep your weight down, exercise, stay off drugs and heavy drinking, there is nothing to worry about. Of course, that means everybody here (we?) needs the fucking scam!
One thing that does work: cataract surgery.
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Get the fuck outta here. Only an asshole who hasn't had a serious health issue in their life would say something this fucking stupid.ApostleofGrief said:almost the entire health industry is a big scam. They spend most of their time making up new diseases for people to worry about. If all you do is not smoke, keep your weight down, exercise, stay off drugs and heavy drinking, there is nothing to worry about. Of course, that means everybody here (we?) needs the fucking scam!
One thing that does work: cataract surgery. -
Truedflea said:
Get the fuck outta here. Only an asshole who hasn't had a serious health issue in their life would say something this fucking stupid.ApostleofGrief said:almost the entire health industry is a big scam. They spend most of their time making up new diseases for people to worry about. If all you do is not smoke, keep your weight down, exercise, stay off drugs and heavy drinking, there is nothing to worry about. Of course, that means everybody here (we?) needs the fucking scam!
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Thanks - I just blew funny stuff out my noseMikeDamone said:
I bet if we wen’t do single payer we’d see a huge uptick in customer service and competence.UW_Doog_Bot said:God help me if I write the whole story of dealing with the wife's previous allergist office where apathy, incompetence, and ignorance all went to retire. I miss my doctor and my PPO that I was told I could keep. At least we are now at a competent practice it's just that we've gotta drive to across LA for services.
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High blood pressure due to food and drinking choices not recommended by the healthcare industry and hidden from the wife?RaceBannon said:This is my first contact with the medical industrial complex in decades
I'm pretty healthy in general but they got their hooks in me on blood pressure
I solved that problem two years ago.
I haven’t gone to a doctor since. Problem solved.
