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Re:Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital ... by dtech on Sunday December 30, 2018 @06:17AM (#18788585)
You're right that "patient"-doctor fraud is unlikely, but receiving unnecessary medication (addictive/fun/valuable drugs) or medical people overcharging or charging for unperformed or unnecessary procedures is a possibility for fraud.
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Re:Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital ... by endless1234 on Sunday December 30, 2018 @07:39AM (#18788886)
But the personnel are salaried, not paid per procedure.
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Re:Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital ... by lostlogin on Sunday December 30, 2018 @08:27AM (#18789065)
Most hospitals have on-call work, overtime, outsourced work, consumables that can be billed for etc. Pay cheques vary a huge amount depending on work done, and as a radiographer in a regional hospital my yearly wage was more than half made up by penal rates and overtime.
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