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Change doctors. Don't reward abuse or failure.

I'd go further and not pay the bill, document why (failed to provide the agreed service?) and send them a notice of it. At least.

It's effectively a scam, don't give in to scammers.

I went for a covid and strep test during the tail end of the pandemic, and happened to pick the closest clinic, cuz you know, I felt like shit and didn't want to go far. This costed me $240, which seemed slightly fucking insane, so I called. Because the place was understaffed, I had to be seen by a doctor instead of a nurse, which for added fun was an out of network doctor. I didn't even KNOW he was a doctor at all, and never bothered to check the network status of the clinic because, again, it was a fucking covid and strep test. The strep test costed me about $20, the covid test was free, and the doctor who spent about 60 seconds reading me the results on the page was $220.

Fucking. Ridiculous.

I think we need to go back to having Nurse Practitioners at schools.