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Er - how about the GP himself/herself?And can anything be done about it?Who to complain to?
I would say certainly not more than €10.How much do you think was a reasonable fee?
No wonder you can afford to be so magnanimous!Mrs Purple is a GP. I think it's great that they can charge so much
That's itNo wonder you can afford to be so magnanimous!
You mean you "ripped people off"?That's it
In fairness the same thing has happened in the past when Mrs. Purple was not earning.
Does this help?You've lost me...
was charged E45 for the cert.Some E9 a minute!Any other posters experience this rip off?
Mrs Purple is a GP. I think it's great that they can charge so much
I think jokes lose a lot when you have to prove them mathematically.In fairness the same thing has happened in the past when Mrs. Purple was not earning.
Sorry, I was talking about me cutting my income before I asked anyone who works for me to do the same; I did so before Mrs Purple was ripping people offI think jokes lose a lot when you have to prove them mathematically.
What business wouldn't have overheads?While I am not defending doctors fees in general (nor am I attacking them), there is a touch of unreality about the argument that the fee is €45 for 3-5 minutes. the doctor has to pay support staff; He has to get out the patient's file; details which the patient might know instantly (name, address, date of birth, gender, existing health defects if any etc.etc.) may have to be checked on the patient file. Then when the form is filled, a copy has to be kept on the GP file for a period - actually more or less for ever. The banks have all given up offering free storage of records. In city premises, with their high rents, record keeping space is not an insignificant overhead.
I still don't understand why this isn't 3-5 minutes work. Every surgery must surely be computerised by now (even in Ireland!), so it should take seconds to bring up a patient record, and minutes to print out note and sign it.As I say, I am making no comment good or bad on the actual level of the fee charged in this case - simply saying that it is overly simplistic to call this 3-5 minutes work.
I still don't understand why this isn't 3-5 minutes work. Every surgery must surely be computerised by now (even in Ireland!), so it should take seconds to bring up a patient record, and minutes to print out note and sign it.
If there really are some doctors operating in Ireland that are that backward, then the patients certainly shouldn't be subsidising them, and should, as you've suggested, so elsewhere.Many are not computerised and the computer does not write the note. Computers are not sentient beings; they are (in these cases) data storage devices
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