His signature is, 'Your're Fired!'. Photo by Gage Skidmore Rarely, I have fired patients from my practice. Why do I do this? You might think that we send out termination letters to patients who haven’t paid their medical bills. We don’t. We try to work with these folks and will keep seeing them as long as they are making the barest effort to address their financial responsibilities. If they refuse to make any payment, or won’t return our billing office’s phone calls, or are hostile to our staff. then we may withdraw as their physician, provided there is no medical urgency present. Our office will see patients who have no medical insurance so that these folks have access to medical care. The process of terminating a professional relationship between physicians and patients is well presented in EverythingHealth , one of my ‘must read’ medical blogs. The more typical reason why we fire patients from the practice is because of continued behaviors and actions which place t
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