{"id":19283,"date":"2018-08-20T20:33:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T10:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=19283"},"modified":"2024-06-28T07:41:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:41:28","slug":"it-pays-to-get-a-second-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=19283","title":{"rendered":"It Pays To Get A Second Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-19284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Psych_And_Patient-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Psych_And_Patient\" width=\"803\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Psych_And_Patient-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Psych_And_Patient-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Psych_And_Patient.jpg 871w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ever since I was a child, I\u2019ve always had a fear of someone under my bed at night. So, I went to a shrink and told him: \u201cI\u2019ve got problems. Every time I go to bed I think there\u2019s somebody under it. I\u2019m scared. I think I\u2019m going crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust put yourself in my hands for one year,\u201d said the shrink. \u201cCome talk to me three times a week and we should be able to get rid of those fears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much do you charge?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c$80 dollars per visit,\u201d replied the doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll sleep on it,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>Six months later the doctor met me on the street and said, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you come to see me about those fears you were having?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, at $80 bucks a visit, three times a week for a year, is $12,480.00. A bartender cured me for $10.00. I was so happy to have saved all that money that I went and bought me a new pickup truck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a bit of an attitude he said, \u201cIs that so? And how, may I ask, did a bartender cure you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told me to cut the legs off the bed. Ain\u2019t nobody under there now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I was a child, I\u2019ve always had a fear of someone under my bed at night. So, I went to a shrink and told him: \u201cI\u2019ve got problems. Every time I go to bed I think there\u2019s somebody under it. I\u2019m scared. I think I\u2019m going crazy.\u201d \u201cJust put yourself in my hands &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=19283\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It Pays To Get A Second Opinion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-humourhumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51189,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283\/revisions\/51189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}