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I wish I could say that my doctor is motivated by healing. She is not. She is motivated by money. I am a walking check book with a heart condition. I am a means to her end, and that end is completely financial. I know this sounds completely jaded. There are probably many physicians out there who are entirely altruistic. Unfortunately, these angels of mercy are not in my circle of care. I have not encountered them. I have written often about my heart condition. I wish I didn't think about it so often, but I had a pretty serious procedure today, so my health is in the forefront of my mind. I think that my experience, and at times my suffering, happens so I can help others. If a moment of my life allows someone else to suffer less, than in a large part what has happened to me is worth it. One of my areas of expertise, whether fortunate or unfortunate, is in the realm of selecting doctors. I have a very rare problem. It is rare, because most of the people who have it are dead. Therefore, doctors want to treat me, because I am a medical marvel. I am the one who survived. Each time I visit my doctor, I marvel at how much her appointments cost. Visits to her office cost almost one hundred dollars. Lately, even if I merely need a prescription refilled, the doctor requires that I come in for a visit prior to her phoning the pharmacy. This requirements means I must pay one hundred dollars for an office visit I don't need each and every month for the rest of my life. My medical condition requires that I take the same medications daily. The plan for me has been the same for the last two years. It will likely remain the same for however long I am here. So, the medication requirements are not going to change from one month to the next. Therefore, the visit to the office is completely unnecessary. The doctor could simply write 11 refills on the original prescription and I would be set for the year. She does not do that so she can make the extra twelve hundred dollars I have to pay in office visits to have the prescriptions authorized. There is no need for me to take the time, make the effort or spend the money for the office visit beyond padding her already burgeoning wallet. However, as her patient, I have no other choice but to comply. If I got angry about this and left her practice, it would cost me far more time, money, energy and angst to find a new care giver than it would to simply go the office.

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