Imagine that you are a physician and the patient sitting before you has no medical insurance. This means, of course, that this individual will have to pay personally for the costs of blood tests, radiology studies, consults with medical specialists, prescriptions, diagnostic tests and even surgeries. What do you think it might cost your patient if he is suffering from issues such as chest pain, weight loss, abdominal pain or dizziness? Standard evaluations for these medical symptoms can cost many thousands of dollars. Medical Care Ain't Cheap So, assuming you are the doctor, how would you modify your advice to be sensitive to your patient’s sober financial realities? Which of the following modifications would you support for a patient who has no insurance? Instead of ordering a stress test for chest pain, prescribe heart medicine to see if this resolves the issue. Instead of sending the patient to the Emergency Room for a question of appendicitis, presc
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