I swear her GP was getting some sort of kickbacks for all those neurology consults.
My years of experience have shown me that the same people that make this type claim are the ones who would be the FIRST to sue when a doctor missed something because he didn’t run every test know to man. My guess: the doctor was practicing CYA medicine.
FYI, the GP gets $150 for every referral to a specialist. I have never sued anyone in my life! My grandmother was 92 years old and her hands shook. They kept insisting that she had Parkinson’s...which she didn’t. Her brother had the same kind of non-Parkinsonian tremors in his hands. The Parkinson’s medicine that they were giving her made her violently ill and hallucinate. The neurologist wanted to drill some holes in her head to do neurological testing of her brain impulses. My mother and I didn’t want them to put her through that. My mother and I went on a trip for ONE week, and her GP took it upon himself to have her evaluated by the neurologist. She was NOT on Medicaid. Her insurance was the best money could buy, and these doctors were just milking her insurance coverage by doing needless procedures and tests.
All those extra tests have a name - preventive medicine.
As in preventing a lawsuit later...