My mother often tells me of local doctors that are a permanent fixture in the "socialite" circuit and many a luxury watch brand launch events. And I'm sure everyone would have recently read about a local doctor who threw an extremely lavish and expensive dinner for friends. It all just seems extravagant and wrong, to me. To be spending more than a thousand dollars on hair and nails, gowns/suits specially flown in from overseas for every event. Copious amounts of money lavished on primping, and luxury. All this, done with their patient's money. Money that could have come from a heavy loan for that needed heart bypass surgery, or from one's retirement fund for a cataract operation. The reality is, heathcare is still a business afterall, isn't it?