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A comatose, pregnant woman in Japan dies after being rejected by 18 hospitals

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They spent 6 hours trying to get this patient with a cerebral hemorrhage transferred.

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Anonymous
This definitely could happen (and probably has happened ) in the US. When I work in the ER of a community hospital I often spend hours trying to “sell” a critically ill patient to one of the big city hospitals. They’re full and they all say “no”.
moonrose2u
i guess we should be thankful here in the states for the system that we have in place…no matter how horrible, aggrevating, unfair, and beaucratic it seems…
karen aka. moonrose
Anonymous
Have been in a few Japanese hospitals in the past. You really do appreciate what we have here after seeing what they have over there…

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