THE PRESCRIPTION OF THE CHOSEN ONE MIKE · FOR THE
JEFFERSONIANS
A cure that’s worse than the disease
Chapter 6
The physician who cares principally about money has many options,
2Because whatever a physician does,
3It’s bound to cost somebody a lot of money,
4Like the government and the insurance companies,
5Not to mention the patient,
6Whether the patient is ever healed or not,
7Which is not a bad compensation plan,
8aEspecially if what you care most about is money.
9But the income-oriented physician,
10If I may be so bold as to call you that,
11Has to be careful of certain diseases and contaminations that other physicians don’t have to worry about,
12bBecause those other physicians spend all their time thinking about how to heal their patients,
13Which immunizes them against certain kinds of infection,
14Although this is definitely a case of the cure being worse than the disease,
15Because spending so much time thinking about sick people is just urinating your life away,
16If you don’t mind me getting technical about it.
17Anyway,
18That’s why I’ve gone to the trouble of documenting some of the ills an income-oriented physician runs the risk of contracting,
19cAnd a prescription for what to do about it.
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