<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Re: Professional practices, was "pay you later"</title> </head> <body> <p>Exactly.   My dentist has his "people" get my money.   I will say for a time they gave a 5% discount for payment at the time of the work, now no discount and payment due...<br/><br/>David Ilvedson, RPT<br/>Pacifica, CA 94044<br/><br/></p> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr/>Original message<br/>From: "Jim Moy" <jim@jimmoy.com> </jim@jimmoy.com><br/>To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Received: 4/11/2008 1:25:20 PM<br/>Subject: Re: Professional practices, was "pay you later"<br/><br/> <p align="left">Mine too.  But it is never the doctor collecting the money, their "people" handle that.<br/><br/>Jim Moy<br/><br/></p> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Farrell <<a href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br/></div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><font face="Arial">I gotta say David, that in most every doctor's office I've been in, I see a sign right there at the receptionist's window: "Payment for services is due when services are rendered...."</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"> </font></div> <div><font face="Arial">Terry Farrell</font></div> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid; margin-right: 0px"> <div class="Ih2E3d"> <div style="font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="background: rgb(228,228,228) 0% 50%; font: 10pt arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial"><font size="3"> </font></div> <div>Would you like to be treated like a doctor, or a lawyer, or a skilled artisan?</div> <div><br/></div> <div>Or would you like to be treated like a day worker, or a cable installer, or a shade-tree mechanic? </div> <div><br/></div> <div>In the first group, the work, and the atmosphere surrounding the work, is the focus; actual money exchange happens later.</div> <div><br/></div> <div>In the second group, the focus is on getting the check.</div> <div> </div> </div> <div>SNIP<br/></div> <div class="Ih2E3d"> <div>David Andersen</div> <div>(flame suit on)</div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote><br/> </div> </body> </html>