NO wonder, most doctors get rich quick (note that we said most, since a vanishing few of them still believe in ‘humanitarian’ medical charges)  because  they bill astronomically and bleed patients mercilessly. More so, if they are a couple – husband and wife—engaged in allied fields of medicine, each complementing the other in terms of patient referrals.

Sometimes, if we were a socialist state, we wish they’ll ban couples from engaging in the same profession especially, medicine. You know what we mean, of course: The poor   patient becomes a milking cow in the hands of both, with neither hardly being   cooperative or attentive to a particular patient’s needs if he doesn’t “patronize” the other.

Now, when did health care become a buy one-take one affair?  We said it once, we say again: Some doctors do not live by the Hippocratic Oath. If they ever hang a frame of that Oath in their clinics (seven out of 10 they don’t, ever noticed that?), you can be sure it’s only for show - especially if they’re a husband-and-wife team of, uh, smart artists.

If you happen to know any such couple of health specialists, write to this column or e-mail us at pangasinan.star@gmail.com. Help our lawmakers and professional regulations officials instill better discipline on such greedy practitioners. You don’t deserve them.