[bd476]

salbam wrote: "...You know the funny thing is you could sue me all day long and I would still treat oyu (sic) when you show up in the ER and treat you the same as if you were family, even if you could not pay. That's what a professional does..."

That's also what your hospital tells you to do, if you are an ER doc. If you are an ER physician, then you are disconnected from the admitting and billing office until you get word that the patient you treated can't pay.

Then your "treatment" continues when the patient is referred to your medical group's collection agency, or your personal attorney.

[salbam]

good try BD - not an ER doc. Required by hosp to take 5 days of call a month, but take call every day because of lack of accessibility of my specialty care in our area. Dont use a collection agency - very low rate of return and patients turned over threaten lawsuits even though they have paid nothing for their care. Not worth it. "And I think to myself, what a wonderful world...."