A pain in my neck . . .
Have you ever taken your car to a mechanic for a tire change and ended up getting a new fuel pump, new brake shoes and new windshield wipers and then got home before you realized you have the same tires you went in with? Well, that’s how I felt after a recent visit to my doctor’s.
I’ve been having trouble with my neck and assumed, since I do spend way too much time at my computer, that it might be a pinched nerve or maybe something to do with the fact that I have three disintegrating disks in my neck. Since seeing a neurologist is out of the question without a referral from a GP, I went to my GP.
He immediately scheduled a battery of tests on everything from my throat to my large colon, including an MRI and a dozen or so x-rays of my neck.
Now, I’m not an anatomy specialist, but I have trouble figuring out what my large colon has to do with a pain in my neck. But who am I to argue with a medical degree? Close to $3000 later, I returned to my GP’s office for the verdict.
He sat down on that ridiculously small stool that all doctors have in their examination rooms, poured over my test results and declared me physicality fit, which seemed to be a disappointment to him. As he got up to leave, I asked about my neck. After all, that’s what had prompted me to shell out $200 for the office call to begin with. I felt it only fair that I get some kind of feedback on my original complaint for my bucks.
He looked at me as if I’d just asked him to surrender his first born to my custody and said "Oh, that’s arthritis," and promptly left. Stunned, I stared at the closed door, realizing as I did so that I had not only gotten a new fuel pump, new brake shoes and new windshield wipers, but I’d also had my system flushed and my check book cleaned out.
My question is this . . . do mechanics and doctors go to the same school for fleecing their customers?
Belssings,
Elziabeth, who still has a pain in her neck
I’ve been having trouble with my neck and assumed, since I do spend way too much time at my computer, that it might be a pinched nerve or maybe something to do with the fact that I have three disintegrating disks in my neck. Since seeing a neurologist is out of the question without a referral from a GP, I went to my GP.
He immediately scheduled a battery of tests on everything from my throat to my large colon, including an MRI and a dozen or so x-rays of my neck.
Now, I’m not an anatomy specialist, but I have trouble figuring out what my large colon has to do with a pain in my neck. But who am I to argue with a medical degree? Close to $3000 later, I returned to my GP’s office for the verdict.
He sat down on that ridiculously small stool that all doctors have in their examination rooms, poured over my test results and declared me physicality fit, which seemed to be a disappointment to him. As he got up to leave, I asked about my neck. After all, that’s what had prompted me to shell out $200 for the office call to begin with. I felt it only fair that I get some kind of feedback on my original complaint for my bucks.
He looked at me as if I’d just asked him to surrender his first born to my custody and said "Oh, that’s arthritis," and promptly left. Stunned, I stared at the closed door, realizing as I did so that I had not only gotten a new fuel pump, new brake shoes and new windshield wipers, but I’d also had my system flushed and my check book cleaned out.
My question is this . . . do mechanics and doctors go to the same school for fleecing their customers?
Belssings,
Elziabeth, who still has a pain in her neck
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