the weird thing about doctors is everyone treats them as if they're a capitalist service but they arent.

or rather, they are, just not subject to ~*~market forces~*~ all that much

you pay up front so they have basically no reason to give that much worth of care -- you cant withhold payment for them not doing their job, and often they'll just tell you shit takes time

(it doesnt, they're either incompitent or wanting your $, or dont believe you because you dont look white and male and cis and NT -- leave them and find another)

@nire I mean on a larger scale the medical industry in the US is extremely capitalist, but yeah individual doctors are usually guided more by bigotry than profit motive

@morganastra well right, they're capitalist but dont work to the forces capitalists think make capitalism work, is basically my point

@morganastra they arent self-adjusting-to-best-good in the same way most things arent

@morganastra but the invisible hand must be believed in more than god or their worldview falls apart so

@morganastra my fav thing is that if your doctor/hospital rents an mri or just bought one, they write more mri tests to ameliorate the cost

@morganastra even when CAT/etc/relatively-cheap-ass-xray would do