He was dumbfounded when my mother refused to give her consent for any more tests. I know he's dying. He knows he's dying. We all know he's dying. So if the decision hinges on whether he gets to die in comfort or whether we put him through the misery of having all these tests performed because your wife wants a new Mercedes, then tell her she can wait a little longer for the car.
Physician greed is a popular topic among medical transcriptionists.
Needless to say, horror stories abound. There are physicians like the one who billed a patient for an office visit dated two weeks after the patient had died. The most common phenomenon encountered by medical transcriptionists is people who want everything from a medical transcription service but don t want to pay for it. In second place is the concept that a transcription service is the same thing as a secretarial service. It is not.