side note: I couldn’t imagine paying $30 a year for Medical Malpractice Insurance. With that being said, this physician pays 10K a year….I know some doctors who would love to pay that premium!
Garrett Stack
TheHeraldBulletin.com/
ANDERSON — The doors to Dr. James Moneyhun’s office, which have been open for 50 years, will close for the last time this month.
Moneyhun, a 77-year-old family practice physician, has been operating in the same building complex, in the 2000 block of Brown Street, for the last 45 years.
“I was kind of thinking recently that I would retire at 50 years,” Moneyhun said. “But when I was 60 I didn’t imagine I would be practicing for this much longer.”
Moneyhun has seen countless patients throughout his long career, where he has done everything from delivering children to working as a tonsil anaesthesist.
“I used to numb tonsils for Dr. King up in the Citizens Bank Building,” he said. “I think I got $15 bucks for it.”
Moneyhun even recalled a time when he used to make house calls at patient’s homes. But those days, he says, are long gone.
“When I first started, malpractice insurance was $30 a year; now its over $10,000,” he said. “And medical supply companies would let you pay however much you had. If you could pay the 100 bucks you owed this month, great, if not, you could pay it whenever you got it.”
The changing face of modern medicine, coupled with his decreasing mobility, lead to his decision to retire.
His trouble walking is partly because of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood that affects plasma cells. The illness forced him to temporarily stop working two years ago. (more…)
