I went to Dr Mahoney's office to speak with someone about my acne. I am a little skeptical about how much I paid. Somehow I ended up paying $70 for the visit (normally I pay $35 for specialists) but they added some extra fees to my bill. Also, I paid over $300 for a few topical creams, even with insurance and the ""coupons"" they gave me that were supposed to help bring the cost down. Now I am a college student and I cannot afford to pay this kind of money for some creams (none of which did any good anyways). Also, I am skeptical any time a doctor offers you a coupon for a med. This shows that they have been visited by a pharmaceutical rep, they are selling the rep's product, and THEY are GETTING PAID every time they write that prescription. So it is in the dr's best interest to push you the product, regardless of how much it costs you or wether or not it is the best product for your condition. I feel like this is what happened to me. Honestly I think it should be illegal for doctors to receive money from a third party for writing a prescription, it takes the fundamental practice of healing out of medicine and makes it more like a business- all about the money. It's totally unethical.
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