41 Secrets Your Doctor Would Never Share

From Reader’s Digest:
<http://www.rd.com/living-healthy/41-medical-secrets/article75920-2.html>

I’d like to make a couple of additional comments to perhaps provide a better sense of reality. Although the prices listed are....well...conservative (meaning the cost is higher), the one *major* item the article fails to put forth is that although the “doctor’s bill” may be $100, the actual reimbursment (ie payment from insurance carrier) is somewhere around $50 (!) - maybe $60. So, doing a bit of quick math, you can see how most, virtually all, of independent physicians have a very difficult time making ends meet.

Interestingly, I learned that the fellow down the road who replaces your windshield wipers gets paid more (when all is said and done, remember he doesn’t have the expenses) than I do if I inject your shoulder, see your sick child for an ear infection, take care of you in the hospital, et al.