How's he going to do that? To start with he's going to hire superstar doctors. To pay them, he'll have to cut costs elsewhere, but who cares about people in the low-paying jobs? It's the Big Names that count. This is just the first of many bad (but good for Green and the bottom line) ideas, another of which is that patients are just customers. They have to pay for what they get. As Green puts it, “People can’t have what they can’t afford. That’s what got America into this economic mess – people wanting something for nothing."
Things go pretty well at first, but eventually the luck runs out, and Green's schemes and corner-cutting begin to catch up with him. Green has to resort to, well, you can't really call it murder, can you?
You'll laugh a lot when you read Samaritans, but it will be a hollow laughter because you'll realize that what you're reading is all too possible. This is satire with a real bite. Check it out.
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Being, as I am, married to a woman who did cost accounting in hospitals for over 25 years...you can't, in the world as it exists (even in the US) get away with most of the stuff that appears to be going on in that book...unless essentially all your patients (customers) are self-pay...which they wouldn't be...But what I have read about it here (and elsewhere) suggests it's really funny, so realism may not be required.
I first remember Jonathan Lynn as a young actor. Then he co-wrote Yes,.Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. He directed Nunsure on the Run and My Cousin Vinny.
Don, it's not realistic, but it's very (sadly) funny, and the lack of realism didn't really bother me. I can suspend disbelief all too easily.
Jeff, I knew it was Nuns.
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