Jeff Langmaid argues professionals should charge like the top 1% of earners. If you can prevent a $10,000 surgery, charge at least $5,000, because the real value includes avoiding surgical risk, anesthesia, rehab, and complications like failed back surgery syndrome, which far exceeds half the surgery cost.
You should be paid like your top 1%. And so that's what immediately made me convicted in my worth. Hey, if I'm canceling $10,000 surgeries, I deserve at least half of that. That's just fair value exchange. But not only that, if I'm canceling a $10,000 surgery, that's the only price we're looking at. Okay, 10 grand saved, I'll charge 5 easy. But you're saving someone the risk of surgery, the risk of being put under, the inevitable rehab and complications they're gonna need after anyway. So what's the value of avoiding the risk, avoiding going under, avoiding future complications, getting into the, you know, failed low back surgery syndrome cascades. What's the value of that? Far exceeds half of the actual cost of the surgery.
