EDITOR: I just love our health system – don’t you. You walk in
the hospital emergency room, feeling great ( except that annoying
pain that almost causes you to collapse on the floor) and that
pleasant conversation with the admission
’s desk person. Age, Sex, address, phone number, Social Security
number, health insurer (Kaiser in our case), bank balance, etc.
…. You know medical stuff.
EDITOR:
I just love our health system – don’t you. You walk in the hospital emergency room, feeling great ( except that annoying pain that almost causes you to collapse on the floor) and that pleasant conversation with the admission’s desk person. Age, Sex, address, phone number, Social Security number, health insurer (Kaiser in our case), bank balance, etc. …. You know medical stuff.
My wife passed a couple of kidney stones last fall, a real fun experience to be sure. They put in a stent in (between the kidney and the bladder) to help prevent pain in case she passed another stone. Talking to the doctor, he informed us that because my wife is real short, no not a midget but close, that they didn’t have a stent short enough, but not to worry it would chafe but it wouldn’t hurt. What wasn’t said at that time was that when the stent would move (chafe) and irritate the tube lining causing an infection. Nor were antibodies given to prevent an infection. Several days later in the middle of the night I awoke to my wife screaming in pain. Back the hospital emergency room. This time she isn’t walking.
Isn’t it great – We, the patients, have no protection from our medical community. Not only are our lives but our bank account are in there hands, literally. Today I got a call from the collection agency informing me that the hospital told them to get more money from us. We have the choice of paying more now, or still more later. Does it matter that we already paid the hospital, not really. Medicine nowadays isn’t to help or heal people, it’s big business.
Danial Bowlin, Morgan Hill
