One Per Visit

A few weeks ago one of my friends went to her primary care doctor. She was there to have him look at her leg. While she was in the room she asked him to look in her throat, as is was sore. He said that he could not. According to the new insurance guidelines, if she was here for her foot, he could not look at her throat, since that was not what she came in for. The guideline says that you can be seen for one thing at a time. If you have another ailment you must make another appointment. She was stunned. She was already there, he was in the room, so what was the problem? Again, he told her that for him to look on her throat, she would need to come back tomorrow. This was not his rule but the rule of the healthcare system that he works for. Healthcare is now a business and has nothing to do with quality of life.