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Because you're the client. You seeing your doctor will always make the doc more money.

To carry this metaphor a step further, you asking for help on a ticket is more like going to the emergency room. If your ticket is a tummy ache you're going to wait. If it's a gunshot wound to the chest you're going to have all the best staff on hand immediately to put out the fire.

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True. Another difference is that it's illegal for me to be my own doctor, but I can be my own programmer. ;-)

Is it? I mean, practicing medicine on other people is illegal in the US, as I understand it; and you can't obtain certain drugs. But I think everything else the doctor does, you can do to yourself without fear of legal penalty?

In the US anything you can legally do for yourself, medically, is not done by the Dr. Other than research.

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