There are some bad apples in every barrel but possibly the biggest scam is baked into most fee-for-service health systems. The more you do, the more you get paid …. so you tend to do more, whether it is necessary or not.
And even without any intent to defraud, this tendency is strengthened by adversarial legal arrangements which lead to defensive medicine, where unnecessary investigations are carried out to cover the doctor legally rather than for the benefit of the patient.
1. Yes.
2. No.
3. I don't know.
4. I don't care.
5. I'm not sure.
6. I don't want to talk about it.
7. I don't have time to discuss it.
8. I don't want my doctor to tell me what to do.
9. I don't trust doctors.
10. Doctors are just trying to make money off of us.
11. I don't need to go to the doctor.
12. I don't want anyone telling me how to live my life.
13. I don't want someone telling me what to eat.
14. I don't want people telling me what to do.
