Oh, and I lost a patient last year because she wanted me to approve a second pair of diabetic shoes (at almost $500/pair) so she could have an every day pair and a pair to wear to church. I refused telling her I thought that was an excessive burden on our already strapped Medicare program. She got pissed and transferred her records.

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. "