Footnote: Hypocrite's Oath (It Sounds Like)

Medicine in this
country is a means to wealth,

and not to good health.
Insurance has become the
assurance of revenue.

 

Kyakuchuu

 

[jlc]

Author's Notes/Comments: 

At present, I am employed by a doctors' billing firm, owned by the doctors themselves.  They are far more like hyenas looking for prey to pay, than healers.

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Very real, and yet, they wait

Very real, and yet, they wait for their pay sometimes up to 6 months only to get a partial payment?

 

But my overall opinion of your comment is that I agree. Like our system of justice, the medical system is broken and needs huge renovations. (I would say reform, but methinks the whole big mess could use tearing down and starting from scratch!)


...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."

"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "