What I do for thirty seven dollars and five cents
The building contractor chatted pleasantly while I checked his blood pressure, waist circumference, cholesterol levels, fasting glucose and urine protein. We discussed bowel and prostate cancer screening in detail, and I gave him written information as we were out of time. As I signed his script for the blood pressure medication, he winked.
“That was easy money for you, wasn’t it?”
Thirty-seven dollars and five cents is the value the government places …


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