Double Dipping Medical professionals

ToxicBunny said:
Umm, I've never seen a GP prescribe from a specific pharmacy, and if they did I would still go to the pharmacy I like going to anyway.
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Not all pharmacies have all medicines for a start. They also keep a patient's details and it's quicker to go to the same one since they don't have to create a new record.

GP's are also visited by drug reps and 'advised' on what to prescribe. I believe there are kickbacks for this. Perhaps the GP will show him his own records or it is tracked back via the pharmacies.
 
AntiGanda said:
GP's are also visited by drug reps and 'advised' on what to prescribe. I believe there are kickbacks for this. Perhaps the GP will show him his own records or it is tracked back via the pharmacies.
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kickbacks, of course there are!
they make more money on kickbacks some GP's they can retire very comfortably!

problem I have, is unless your crazy and check everything 1000 times online to see if they right,
they gambling with your life to make a quick buck!

SA not alone in this, in India the doctors there will sell you anything to cure "Delhi belly"

including smarties,cocaine, and jelly babies wrapped in a bag for 100000 rupees....
nothing new here, doctors like everything else need to be double checked and examined very carefully!
 
AntiGanda said:
Not all pharmacies have all medicines for a start. .
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You are well within your rights to find any pharmacy that has what you need. You are also within your rights to not take any medication you don't feed you need or want to take. You don't even have to buy it.
 
eg2505 said:
kickbacks, of course there are!
they make more money on kickbacks some GP's they can retire very comfortably!

problem I have, is unless your crazy and check everything 1000 times online to see if they right,
they gambling with your life to make a quick buck!

SA not alone in this, in India the doctors there will sell you anything to cure "Delhi belly"

including smarties,cocaine, and jelly babies wrapped in a bag for 100000 rupees....
nothing new here, doctors like everything else need to be double checked and examined very carefully!
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LOL
 
I have tinfoil hats for sale guys..

Special price just for you, will cure all your ills.
 
eg2505 said:
kickbacks, of course there are!
they make more money on kickbacks some GP's they can retire very comfortably!

problem I have, is unless your crazy and check everything 1000 times online to see if they right,
they gambling with your life to make a quick buck!

SA not alone in this, in India the doctors there will sell you anything to cure "Delhi belly"

including smarties,cocaine, and jelly babies wrapped in a bag for 100000 rupees....
nothing new here, doctors like everything else need to be double checked and examined very carefully!
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Give me 1 concrete example of this.

If a doctor prescribes XYZ - how on earth will they get a kickback?

From the rep or from the pharmacy?

If from a rep go see a different doctor, the first doctor will have a malpractice suit waiting.
If from the pharmacy - how the **** does the doctor ensure you go to a specific pharmacy?

I don't believe this is common at all, and I challenge you to give me a real example of where this happened. What was prescribed when it should not have been? What was not prescribed that should have been?
Who do you believe gave the doctor a kickback?
 
eg2505 said:
fair enough, but remember,

when you walk in with a good med aid, like discovery classic comprehensive,
you are like a big bag of money that just walked through the door,

they will perscribe anything and everything to you just to get there hands on some of that dough.....
medical procedures you dont even need, equipment you dont actually require,

and bill you through the roof for it,

and yes you can go to any pharmacy, but how would you know whats actually needed and cheap
and whats actually needed but expensive and has side effects?

and GP's are not beyond getting referrals/commissions/kickbacks,

I saw it firsthand how some doctors will prescribe you anything they can think of just to make a quick buck,
even if it nearly kills you in the process!
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Dude, you need to pick your medical professionals more carefully!
 
LazyLion said:
Dude, you need to pick your medical professionals more carefully!
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happened with a few doctors I know, and they were registered and all that jazz

tin foil I know, until you get a bill for 2000 rand for a "treatment" that you dont know about,
doctors are crooks, why do you think the medical industry is one of the richest industry after IT companies?

yes there is malpractice and things like that, but as always with lawyers, its your word against theirs
and usually they win, as they went to school for X amount of years and did so much work to be a GP or dentist

want proof: heres one,:
http://www.acfe.com/article.aspx?id=4294976280

let me be clear, not ALL doctors are crooks,
but a few can try things, like sending you to this practitioner for a kickback
or overperscribe XYZ drug to you because they can, and make money from its use.

most people dont get second opinions from doctors, and most people dont question too much what a doctor says,
why should you?

but often its that instinct that the dodgy doctors will play on and use to their advantage,

in my dads case, it was he had a bit of a chronic back pain
and they prescribed him extremely strong sedative used in heart patients during surgery,

only luck my dad had was he was a bit cautious and did a bit of digging,
and found out its very dangerous to use this for something as common as back pain.

dad always says he was very lucky it didnt knock him out so the doctor will make a bit of extra dough....
as at the time he had classic comprehensive that cover everything properly.
 
eg2505 said:
happened with a few doctors I know, and they were registered and all that jazz

tin foil I know, until you get a bill for 2000 rand for a "treatment" that you dont know about,
doctors are crooks, why do you think the medical industry is one of the richest industry after IT companies?

yes there is malpractice and things like that, but as always with lawyers, its your word against theirs
and usually they win, as they went to school for X amount of years and did so much work to be a GP or dentist

want proof: heres one,:
http://www.acfe.com/article.aspx?id=4294976280

let me be clear, not ALL doctors are crooks,
but a few can try things, like sending you to this practitioner for a kickback
or overperscribe XYZ drug to you because they can, and make money from its use.

most people dont get second opinions from doctors, and most people dont question too much what a doctor says,
why should you?

but often its that instinct that the dodgy doctors will play on and use to their advantage,

in my dads case, it was he had a bit of a chronic back pain
and they prescribed him extremely strong sedative used in heart patients during surgery,

only luck my dad had was he was a bit cautious and did a bit of digging,
and found out its very dangerous to use this for something as common as back pain.

dad always says he was very lucky it didnt knock him out so the doctor will make a bit of extra dough....
as at the time he had classic comprehensive that cover everything properly.
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Are you sure it's not just Load Shedding?
 
If the infection went to your brain, you would complain that he didn't put you on antibiotics.
 
eg2505 said:
happened with a few doctors I know, and they were registered and all that jazz

tin foil I know, until you get a bill for 2000 rand for a "treatment" that you dont know about,
doctors are crooks, why do you think the medical industry is one of the richest industry after IT companies?

yes there is malpractice and things like that, but as always with lawyers, its your word against theirs
and usually they win, as they went to school for X amount of years and did so much work to be a GP or dentist

want proof: heres one,:
http://www.acfe.com/article.aspx?id=4294976280

let me be clear, not ALL doctors are crooks,
but a few can try things, like sending you to this practitioner for a kickback
or overperscribe XYZ drug to you because they can, and make money from its use.

most people dont get second opinions from doctors, and most people dont question too much what a doctor says,
why should you?

but often its that instinct that the dodgy doctors will play on and use to their advantage,

in my dads case, it was he had a bit of a chronic back pain
and they prescribed him extremely strong sedative used in heart patients during surgery,

only luck my dad had was he was a bit cautious and did a bit of digging,
and found out its very dangerous to use this for something as common as back pain.

dad always says he was very lucky it didnt knock him out so the doctor will make a bit of extra dough....
as at the time he had classic comprehensive that cover everything properly.
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So you post a link that has ****all to do with south africa - and you don't answer one of my questions.

Be specific man.
 
He also seems to have the worst luck on the planet in terms of finding service providers that won't rip him off.
 
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