No, Angloesque is not being impossible to deal with, drmiler, he's being rational. We (including you) don't know all the facts - all that's been shared with us are the allegations. Where there is smoke there is usually fire, and it may turn out this guy is a bad doc. Or it may turn out that he's a really good surgeon who strongly believed the operation he performed was medically the best option for those patients, but maybe he (perhaps with the cooperation, even insistence, of his patients) listed the operation (for billing purposes) as the type that was covered by insurance, which is always slow to accept new procedures as covered, to help his patients avoid having to pay big sums out of pocket. That wink-n-a-nod kind of arrangement is wrong, mind you, but we ask our doctors to bend the truth a bit all the time to save $20, let alone the cost of a gastric bypass.
A presumption of innocence is appropriate, no... required, under our system of laws. So I wouldn't be so smug just because you think he's guilty. It doesn't become you, my friend.
Cheers,
Daiwa
