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would respectfully disagree that an educated patient cant help control costs.... My experience with some doctors is that they dont effectively investigate and listen to patients and would rather just run tests....the old "I dont know....let's throw a bunch of stuff and see what sticks"...The HMO concept has made this worse in my opinion....even seeing a specialist doesnt always work either....because some specialists even have a special focus...
So I think the discussion should be in having an educated patient who helps direct the care and saves costs....
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Right on... and even worse it's hard to even BE an educated patient when you cannot even get a price for something.
Any perfectly good medical knowledge you acquire will be dismissed by the MD because only HE can know anything about medicine. Without any relevent testing. Just XRAY vision apparently.
I know I had a couple hundred thousand dollars wasted by misdiagnosis after misdiagnosis, failure to identify an adverse drug reaction. Misdiagnosed that as a "new illness". I told the assholes the whole time to read the medical literature but their minds were made up. I had to give them some credibility for a while but knowing more about medical conditions than they did I sh*t canned them. And they wonder why people sue. And then we get shtheads blaming people like me for running up the cost of health care.
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