This was basal too, second time.
What baked my noodle...
The first time they "insisted" I go get radiation treatment...I went to the consult ($400) to find out they wanted me to commit to >$80k before starting - guaranteed it was gonna cost at least that (a few hits of 9MeV betas). Nice lady but I don't buy them a Cadillac without a little more relationship.
As it turned out, it would have been a complete waste of resources - the surgeon did a good job (same guy) and no remission in 2 years so...the rads of course would have missed this one entirely. I pointed this out to the insistent surgeon this time who was really wanting me to do the rads.
If I have to go bankrupt and give up all my life's work to become a parasite on society, what indeed did you do for me for *maybe* a few more days of life? Why would I want extra of a life not worth living, with a complete loss of self respect?These guys live in another world...you could see the gears turn when I said this. These are people who can't even tell you what something costs on the way out of the office, as if you could run a biz without knowing paychecks rent and materials. Nope, we bill insurance at 10x our guess, get paid 1/3 of that usually,l and somehow live. If you're a cash guy we add 100% more because some won't pay. They of course never skip a meal.
I could, should I choose, do boron neutron capture therapy, seems I own a pretty decent and controllable neutron generator right here. Neutrons are expensive otherwise, which is why you don't hear more about that technique. Turns out many boron compounds (I did homework) are attracted to cancers. Neutrons make them go "bang" and give off some hot heavy particles, which are just enough to kill that one cell...
- Well known to fusor types
The looks on their faces if you hand them a BNCT research paper are priceless (see what I did there?). You're not supposed to know more than the average practitioner!
I suspect that some who don't have insurance or would like to skip a lot of it and don't know how to mangle the system would appreciate this very excellent treatise on how to only pay the ~87% discounted price the government gets...if you don't need it, get a copy anyway, most of us have friends.
This one's real eye opening. All it took was a glance at it to get some of my med bills cut by 8 to 1. They say they don't know, but you can bet the office manager/billing supervisor does know...
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Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.