I go to two different hospitals several different times a week along with two different medical buildings attached to those hospitals. I’m pushing my father around in a wheelchair for the endless round of doctors visits, lab tests, imaging scans, and chemo.

What do I see every time?

Medical salesman that almost outnumber the patients, well dressed pretty/handsome people in suits with a roll-along case cutting in front of us to see the doctor while we are waiting. They sometimes have appointments, sometimes not, many of them have set it up to have lunch delivered to the entire office by some caterer.

I look at them and see where the thousands we spend every month even after all our coverage are going. On any given day there must be 100 of them roaming around Bayfront and St. Anthony’s and the medical buildings attached to them. How can you tell me that this is the best way to spend our medical dollars?