If it walks like a scam and talks like a scam, maybe it is your hospital's billing department

For reasons that will soon become apparent, I would like to share with you a joke I heard back at medical school. I will remind you that this was in Belgrade, Serbia in the early 2000s, but the joke would apply to any Serbian institution of higher education, or indeed any place anywhere in the world that uses oral exams I have heard these called viva voce in the US, which is a bafflingly cheerful-sounding name for a rather traumatic ordeal. to determine the final grade. Please also bear in ...