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Patient: Put down that I am here because of a sore throat and runny nose.

Doctor: Do you have a sore throat and runny nose?

Patient: If you don't put that down, the insurance won't pay!

Doctor: Do you have a sore throat?

Patient: No.

Doctor: Do you have a runny nose?

Patient: No.

Doctor: Then I can't put that down. why are you here today?

Patient: For a yearly physical. Why can't you just put down a runny nose and sore throat like I told you to. Just do what I told you.

Doctor: That would be insurance fraud. I won' t do that. The plan you choose does not cover yearly physicals to keep your premium lower. That would be your out of pocket expense.

Patient: I don't care! Put it down!

Doctor: So, why did you tell me that you had symptoms you didn't have?

Patient: Because I'm honest!

"So endeth the lesson." Jimmy Moran, The Untouchables"