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It's funny that I can take my car to a mechanic and get a free and pretty accurate diagnosis. But you go to a hospital, and you need pay for the diagnosis and it may not be accurate.

Even for a checkup, after the procedures are done, the office can't tell me the bill.

...yet we we call mechanics "wrench monkey" in a demeaning manor.

BTW, this is probably why services like Minute Clinic are getting popular...go in, get something done, pay a flat/low fee.




Well the diagnoses for your vehicle come from a 200 page Haynes manual, your body doesn't exactly have a Haynes manual for your make/model/year.


How does the complexity of the human body come into play after they've done their procedure and still can't tell me how much I will be paying?

Do you take your car to the mechanic, get some work done, only to get a bill 3 months later?


i think the many books on human anatomy disagree with you by their very existence...




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