Every so often there is an article 
in a newspaper written by someone complaining about “rich doctors” giving professional courtesy (not charging each other or their families for medical care), and blaming that in part for the escalating costs of medicine in this country. Don’t you just hate when the misinformed have a platform from which to blather incessantly?
And then recently I had a discussion with a non-physician “professional” who complained about this practice. So I felt compelled to explain to him
