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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not going to name the clinic yet but I am suspecting that the treatment we are receiving is not stellar, and financially disadvantageous to us. So, we saw someone for a pediatric finger injury that the x-rays showed to be a closed fracture. The doctor did not set it, even though the finger clearly looked off, top part was pointing slightly sideways, definitely misaligned. The doctor said we could come in one week and take another x-ray. Which we did. Guess what, there was no change, BUT now we owe money for the second cast because they could not see the bone through the first cast. Plus they took about 10 more xray images of the hand, thank you very much.

My question is: can a closed fracture miraculously realign itself in a cast in one week's time? I am not a doctor but my expectation would be zero change. So I am planning to contest this with the doctor and the billing department. He should have set the fracture the first time around, and this would have saved us from unnecessary xray exposure as well as hundreds of dollars in charges for new x-rays and the new cast. [/quote]

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