Do Doctors Always Have the Best Interests of Patients in Mind?

[gerntz]

Way shorter wait period for possibly higher payment botox treatments than for potentially cancerous mole study appointments according to study:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070830043429.boo9bmfz&show_article=1

[kydingbat]

Not surprising at all, but still sad.

[Mr. Peanut]

I'd guess that offices are geared to handle the "bread and butter" cases as efficiently as possible, with separate systems in place to manage. So, if you need an easy profitable procedure like Botox, you go into system X... Standard workups probably go into the general patient population and are scheduled according to general appointment availability.

Gotta say though, 30 days for an appt for a possibly acute issue sounds big to me based on what I see. Maybe questionable moles aren't as "acute" as the things we deal with. The scheduling I see has most folks who need, say prostate surgery because of a questionable result, into the office within days and into the OR within a week or two. Now, scheduling a general checkup might take 30 days... but, even that seems long to me. Maybe in a city like Louisville, everything is more available than the average out in rural areas.