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Originally posted by widebody911
A couple things I'm not clear on:
* why are you, personally the one who has to get out of bed
* why do you have to eat the expense?
* Why isn't she and her new bundle of joy on the first bus to Xoacaca Monday morning?
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A condition of being granted admitting privileges to the hospital is that I cover "emergency" care one 24 hour shift/week. Once you initiate care, you have to see it through. In otherwords, if the patient is in the hospital for three months and requires several operations, I'm still the guy.
I eat the expense because I am not allowed to deduct charitable services on my income taxes. Nor am I allowed to claim financial loss for my time out of the office and the lost income due to cancelled appointments. Nor am I allowed to deduct my loss as "bad debt" when the patient doesn't pay me.
Patient confidentialty precludes the hospital from reporting the patient to immigration services. In fact, we are not even allowed to ask their citizenship status.