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The following is from an interview with the late Dr. Howard Shelly, M.D.
When I started to make house calls at night I asked Dr. Rodabaugh what he charged for a night house call.
He gave me his classic answer: Well, when the phone rings and it’s one in the morning I say to myself, I’m going to charge this guy thirty bucks.
By the time you get your clothes on and get to the car, eh, I’ll charge him twenty. By the time you get out there and you are wide-awake and go to the house you say, we’ll, I’m going to charge him fifteen.
Then when you get in there and you evaluate the situation then he says, how much is it? you say, it’s ten dollars. So, that’s the way it was.
Now the people who are making house calls are the home health nurses.
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