Always question your healthcare

[n2mark]

A woman wjp jad a biopsy performed on her head got an even bigger headache when an unexpected bill popped up in her mailbox.

http://www.azfamily.com/news/3oys/stories/KTVKLNews20050124.3e8f697f.html

[bryant69]

1. Interesting

You mean the medical industry might not have it's patients best interests in heart?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[liberalhistorian]

2. Can you post a little of the story?

I don't want to have to go through all the registration stuff just to read the story.

[Digit]

3. Me, either

Post some of it, won't you?

[oscar111]

4. "dr's DAMN NEAR KILL THEMSELVES in med school"/they deserve every penny:NO

Not so.

If they damn near kill themselves in school,

is that why 24 nations now outlive us? Why our health system is ranked 37 th and our population health is 72 nd ?

WORLD HEALTH REPORT 2OOO fm the UN.

I see greedheads as the big problem in our nations docs.
Funny their enormous incomes are never mentioned as THE cause of high health costs. NEVER mentioned.

Plus, the problem is those who worship docs, due in part to the propoganda on tv, the three /week doctor dramas. Senator Frist is more typical of docs... a flat ZERO on his ADA rating one year. Face like the grim reaper, with good reason: thats his attitude.
Greed, greed, greed. Its so disgusting. The AMA defeated Truman's push in '5O for free docs.

Nationalize EVERY CORNER of healthcare or you will again see the remaining private corners go sky high with prices.

drs
insurance
hospitals
big pill

the four corners to nationalize.

[knitter4democracy]

9. Thanks for spitting on my husband's work and all he's done.

You know, there are doctors on DU and doctors' wives as well, like me for instance.

We owe over $175K for med school. Try living with that for awhile on any income. David worked his ass off in med school, practically had a nervous breakdown, took a break, went back, and graduated with honors in some of his rotations. I'm damn proud of him. They literally cover ten times the amount covered in med school curricula just thirty years ago--and they have the same amount of time to do it in.

We managed to survive residency, or as I call it, three years of hell. David averaged 80 work weeks, meaning 120 hours, really much of the time, leaving me to raise our children pretty much by myself. He got paid just enough to keep us out of the hole permanently, but we're still paying off debt we took on just to survive then, and we're going to be paying it off for a long time.

Do I know greedy bastards in medicine? Yup. Do I know awesome doctors who do anything for patients, not caring the hours or the cost? Hell, yeah, I'm married to one. There are more of those than you think. Specialists get paid really, really well for the most part, but generalists, like my internist hubby, get paid worse. We're fine with that, as David's the happiest I've ever seen him in his job and the hours are more manageable (at least he's often below 80 for once in our marriage). He's finally really getting to know our children, and that's the best part.

David spends hours every week fighting for his patients with insurance companies, other doctors, nurses, family members, and often the patients themselves. He is more pissed off than you can imagine that we don't have a national health care plan, and he wears his Dean pin proudly on his lab coat. Makes for interesting conversations, apparently. David's a member of the AMA just so he can keep an eye on them, as we all know they're evil. Hell, most doctors aren't even members, they hate the AMA so much. And don't get him started on Pharma!

I know many here at DU are quick to blame doctors for everything, but they forget that there are doctors here who are living and breathing in our broken system. Don't piss on them when they're on fire--help them out!

[n2mark]

5. This is my post

http://www.azfamily.com/news/3oys/stories/KTVKLNews20050124.3e8f697f.html

[liberalhistorian]

6. That's still just a registration page

where you have to jump through hoops and give your email and list things you're interested in so they can send you junk email. I don't want to deal with that. Can you give at least some idea of what the story's about, maybe post a couple paragraphs?

[Swamp Rat]

7. Oh I question it...

WHERE IS IT??? x(

[liberalhistorian]

8. That's a damn good question.

I'm sure Andy Stephenson wants to know, since the damned hospital won't do his desperately needed cancer operation without every fucking cent of their precious fifty grand. Gotta keep those docs and hospital CEO's in their BMW's and Hummers, I suppose.

[knitter4democracy]

10. My hubby has a used Taurus--

and it's the nicest car he's ever had. Not all docs are rich, not even at Johns Hopkins.