Minneapolis, Minn.-Recent reports indicate that future lawyer Adam Kendall has skipped out on a medical bill to take a test.
After ending up in the hospital when a group of three men jumped him while he waited at a depot, Adam ended up waking up in the hospital the next morning. Despite medical advice, Adam left the hospital to continue taking a test in hopes of securing a law school scholarship.
The nurse at the hospital, meanwhile, can’t decide what is worse: that Adam disobeyed her orders or that he left the hospital without so much as inquiring if he owed anything for the care he received.
“If everyone treated their bills so casually, we’d be in a world of hurt,” the nurse remarked.
Adam disagrees about the importance of paying his medical bills, however.
“I figured if they don’t know who I am really, what harm could come of it?” the future interpreter of laws states. “It’s not like I have the money to pay the bill, anyway. I’d like to see them try to find me, and then what, take nothing? And anyway, I didn’t ask for the care. I’m not paying for care that I didn’t even ask for.”
Adam continues that this provides a really exciting opportunity to hone the skills of interpretation he will use as a lawyer.
“They might say that I skipped out on a bill,” Adam notes, “and that’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to think that I saved them the time, money, and resources that would have been spent had I stayed there longer.”
At press time, Adam was thinking about eating out just so he could dash out of the restaurant before the bill arrives.
