Must a Doctor Play Doctor?

Interesting post at Gene Expression on the recent news that some doctors do not want to treat ambulance chasing lawyers. I wonder how a lawyer proves that he/she is not an ambulance chaser?  Anyway, the post is titled “Hippocrates Shrugged," and godless, who posted the piece, has multiple links for your enlightment.  A point by godless, that I found worth considering.

"Medicine is one of the few professions (I can’t think of any other) in which the doctor is forced to serve you regardless of your ability to pay. We don’t require supermarkets to give free food to the indigent, and we don’t require landlords to give free housing to the homeless, but the urgency of emergency care means that doctors get saddled with the short end of the stick when it comes to delinquent payments - which are legion."

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