The combination of waiting, lack of equipment, and liability fears pushes this person over the edge. All that is wrong with the health-care system, in a nutshell.
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If extracoporeal shock wave lithotripsy wasn’t available at that hospital, wouldn’t semi-urgent uteroscopic extraction (or percutaneous nephrolithotomy, depending on the stone’s location)be indicated for a painful stone the size of a “boulder”?
What did she expect? Nobody in the healthcare system is an advocate for anybody besides themselves. The sooner that people get over this “santa claus and tooth fairy both exist” mentality that others are looking out for them or are their advocates, the sooner we can get some actual meaningful reform.
Interesting how this “concerned citizen” managed to take a swipe at everyone except the lawyers. Hmmmm
There is an inverse correlation between convenience and cost. Learn this public. When you drain the system of money, convenience will go down. Take your pic–hospital like a day spa and 50% of your paycheck to healthcare costs, or barebones, run-ragged hospital with 17% of your paycheck to healthcare costs. It is not just like this at St. Elsewhere, but at most University Hospitals as well.
1. It is stent, not stint
2. you can’t get uremia or kidney failure with unilateral disease.
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A hospital can’t pay for a lithotripsy machine when they have to put 20% of the budget into a “risk Management department”. The Democrats will cause an increase in the risk management budget to 40%!
If you don’t like how you were treated or disagree with how a hospital spends its money, here’s a novel concept. Go somewhere else. Its our nature to bitch and moan about everthing.
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