alt Hacker NewsMalpractice is deliberate harm by not following standard professional practices or doing deliberate harm.
I’m not talking about that. What I’m talking about is fucking simple. A doctor gives you advice and you pay him thousands for it. That advice is completely fucking wrong.
In what universe does that payment make sense? In what universe is giving wrong information deserving of thousands of dollars of payment for services rendered. It’s bloody simple: it’s not deserved and a refund is in order.
You're generally paying for time and materials, not results. This is common practice in many industries, not just healthcare, so your rhetorical question is silly and displays deep ignorance about how the system works. If you want to pay for results only then you're free to negotiate a cash payment contract with your healthcare providers on that basis. No one is stopping you from doing that so let's not have any lame responses claiming that the system is conspiring against you or something.