When doctors don’t know the cost of medical care
The Saturday after Sandy hit, I was the medical student in a Cambridge, Massachusetts emergency room. Around the time my shift started, Andrew, a man about my age, couldn’t bear the pain in his nose any longer. The ED nurse still talks about the “huge booger” bulging from his nose. A few days before coming to the ED, he’d left behind his flooded, powerless Brooklyn apartment seeking refuge in his …
