Monday, April 14, 2008

The Doctor

Went to a knee specialist today...
Well, after a short explaination and the history of the mess in my knees he asked my to lie down and he poked couple of spots, asked if that or that hurt. All in all around 15 minutes... then he told my they needed x-ray photo and MRI of both knees.
Fair enough, I had expected that. He told me to go downstairs book a time for that and then book another time with him couple of days after they have the results.
I walked out of the doctors office after this short chat. In which he could not tell me anything what was wrong or if it would be save to run again.
Well, fair enough I thought. He will tell me more after I get the pictures. But as I am walking through the reception the receptionist handed me a bill of 150 US dollars!!! 150$ for less than 20 minutes, where he did more or less nothing and didn't tell me anything!!! wow!!!

I walked downstairs to the MRI/x-ray part. They didn't have anything available untill the middle of May so a months wait and... they told me the bill would be around 300$ fantastic!!!!

They better have some answers after I give them 500$!!

Anyways... enough of me irritating my self over a stupid system... my knee actually feels much better so I am going for 4 trainings tonight. Starting with spinning class, going into weights, where I will again take light weights, on to swim trainnig where I plan to take 1500m on time. Then football where I will test my knee.

On a more positive note I got the bike today!! It is a Peugeot racer bike. Almost new, just abot 20 years old. :)
Fell of the first two times trying to get my feet into the pedals... I am so happy about the bike, can't wait taking it out for a rida... the plan is to do that tomorrow.
Also it has a name (has had it for years), it's Pusi derivative of Peugeot :)

Welcome Pusi!

4 comments:

jen said...

Hope you get some answers on your knee, especially for that price!

I love that you got an older bike with a history and a name. I bet it would have some good stories to tell, if it could talk. :)

Anonymous said...

Glad the knee is feeling better, but it's amazing what those doctor visits cost!

peter said...

Welcome Pusi indeed! I think you'll get to know the bike very well in the next few months.

I got a 2-ounce tube of steroidal creme for a recurring face rash from my provider. My co-payment was $25 which is high anyway. The bill said my insurance paid $245 for the rest. What a rip off. It's all an accounting sham for the pharmaceutical and health insurance companies. $$270 for 2 ounces of cream? Right.

Tomas said...

That's ridicilus indeed... I can't see why this has to cost so much!
They just know we have no other option than to pay whatever they put up...
I think that is borderlining blackmail!