"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Here's another food analogy. In today's billing environment, if you come to the doctor for a procedure - such as a skin biopsy or wart freezing or an ear irrigation - but mention that while you're there you would also like to have a nagging cough checked, or a sprained ankle treated - the doctor can't bill you for the added services. Or, more accurately, he can bill you, but he won't get paid. What would that be in the food industry?
"It's like going to the grocery store to get bread, milk and butter and expecting the grocer to throw in a steak because you’re there," FP Steven Bruner, M.D., of Lawrence, Kan., told the reference committee. "If you 'bundle in' the steak without the grocer's permission, we would call that shoplifting. posted by Sydney on
10/16/2005 02:24:00 PM
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