Waverunner
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A very eye opening article from the New York Times. A professor for history had to undergo surgery for a skin cancer. While the surgery was not complicated and cost around 1,400 USD, she was ripped off with 25,000 USD because the doctor refused to treat the uncomplicated wound (which he was able to do) and forced her to visit a plastic surgeon next door, who then sedated her and treated the local wound within a few minutes. Just sick.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/h...ecialists-incomes-soar.html?ref=business&_r=1
CONWAY, Ark. — Kim Little had not thought much about the tiny white spot on the side of her cheek until a physician’s assistant at her dermatologist’s office warned that it might be cancerous. He took a biopsy, returning 15 minutes later to confirm the diagnosis and schedule her for an outpatient procedure at the Arkansas Skin Cancer Center in Little Rock, 30 miles away...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/h...ecialists-incomes-soar.html?ref=business&_r=1
CONWAY, Ark. — Kim Little had not thought much about the tiny white spot on the side of her cheek until a physician’s assistant at her dermatologist’s office warned that it might be cancerous. He took a biopsy, returning 15 minutes later to confirm the diagnosis and schedule her for an outpatient procedure at the Arkansas Skin Cancer Center in Little Rock, 30 miles away...