[AnotherUnixGeek]

Or it could mean that male surgeons order unnecessary treatment options. I don’t need a surgeon whose primary concern is running up health care costs to enrich himself.

Not comparable in scope or severity. A surgeon fixated on saving costs could seriously impact your health as a patient in a negative way. A surgeon who runs up costs with unnecessary bills may impact your wallet (and your insurer's), but he's not going to cost you your health or your life.

If it's a choice between the former and the latter and I'm the one on the operating table (as I have been twice in the last two years), I know which I'll choose every time.

[Jubal Harshaw]

Not at all true. A surgeon who is fixated on running up bills may expose the patient to more surgical, anesthetic, and other side effects, up to and including death. Even just pretending to do a procedure (for billing purposes) while not actually completing the procedure (as described here:

https://www.bookofjoe.com/2006/04/behindthemedspe_6.html

Can have dire consequences.