Why patients have to be their own advocates

I am a 47-year-old female.  In December of 2010, I had surgery to remove a 2 inch atrial myxoma (a heart tumor) in my left atrium.  The costs for that were astronomical.  That is not what I am writing about.  I am writing about what happened in the months after my surgery and a cure that cost $9.19 if you don’t count all of the unnecessary doctor visits and …

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