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[Sean]

Yeah it is about 10,000 a night for inpatients.  On top of that you get
charged for the procedure and for the doctor administering the procedure.
Makes much more sense to have insurance

On 1/19/07, edward potter <edwardpotter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's an average for the typical surgical procedure - (ballpark avg).
> That's gets you a surgeon, resident, anesthesiologist, and a nurse in
> an NYC hospital. This is a VERY rough cost figure. You can take almost
> any operation, and your bell curve will probably fall somewhere around
> those numbers. I'm guessing the majority of surgeons make between
> $250-$750K per year in Manhattan.
>
> And yes, if you go in self pay (this was about 3 years ago), your
> deposit is $10G per day at New York Hospital - of course Manhattan
> probably has the cream of the crop in health care, if not the best in
> the world. With some google'ing I guess you can cut your cost, Brazil
> for plastic surgery, Korea for rhinoplasty, etc.
>
> I still think the web is really under-utilized in the medical field,
> still has a long way to go. As the boomers hit their end years, expect
> this market to explode. You would thing that the defense budget is
> big?- that "ain't nothing" compared to health-care costs. For some
> reason people just don't want to ride off into the sunset, they want
> to hang around as long as possible!  :-)
>
> Tips?  NEVER go into any operation without google'ing your MD, and the
> procedure. From my experience, MDs are very happy when you go into an
> appointment with a list of relevant references, links, refs from
> journals, etc. - also teaching hospitals seem to always have the best
> MDs, at least in my experience.
>
> Actually my surgeon was a she. :-)
>
> sorry, slightly off topic!  yipes!
>
> >
> > $10,000/a night, Is it really true? And is surgery also counted by
> hours? It
> > means to earn more money a surgeon can hold knife in his hands for 1
> extra
> > hour and he gets paid another 16 000 - 20 000$ ?
> >
> > >
> > > In other words, a good health insurance policy is probably worth it no
> > > matter what the cost.
>
> > > -ed
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