Bert,

I used to be a puppy dog about collections because I felt so badly turning away patients I really liked....ones with whom I felt I had a great relationship. But then it dawned on me, after sending records on patients to other doctors that I have only a small handfull of patients who would be loyal to me at all costs, so why should I be loyal to those who do not respect me enough to pay for my services? Now, like Vinny, they have to have a really good excuse to be late or remiss with their payments.

Leslie

Leslie
Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC

"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "