Comment by robwwilliams

Not how I view it as a 74 yo. Patients get what their doctors want as part of a culture of minimal preventive care (it does not pay) and massive medical care (procedures pay handsomely).

Try to get a unilateral diagnostic mammogram. Sorry in the system I am in there is no code for a unilateral diagnostic, only bilateral, even if only one side actually requires diagnosis.

Why? Because 2X the charge and income fir little extra care cost. And who would ever complain about such “excellent” care? Recent experience.