I-node if you stub your toe at night I bet you blame the federal government.
Anyway here is my grand ER adventure from 5AM last Sunday (as sent by PM to Lane). No clue what any of this will cost the insurance company. But the bulk of it is a waste of money...
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Yes I'm fine, thanks for asking. Haven't been sick forever but picked up a flu thing, mostly head and chest. Was 3/4 through it but still coughing like crazy, had one really bad cough, and the muscles in my upper chest cramped all across, super painful. 1st thought, just relax it'll go away (it did). Second thought, chest pain=heart attack. 3rd thought, no it's on the surface and not near the heart can't be a HA. 4th thought, "what do you know you've never had a HA"?
So I decided to be an adult and went to the ER. I go in and say "I'd like an EKG please". Of course they're not going to do that, so I end up with an EKG, on a heart monitor, taking some new blood test for heart attacks (who knew), chest X-rays, blood oxygen test, saw at least 8 nurses and 3 doctors, on a steroid IV. One of the Docs said at some point "we cant just give you an EKG, we don't work like that". Everything negative of course, I'm feeling pretty good. Then the final Dic comes in and says he wants to keep me until the next day to give me 2 more of the blood tests. I say "no way", he says, honest, "OK but if you die we're not responsible". I said "deal".
Anyway I've got great insurance, and an ER visit is $100, period. No ups, no extras. So I was a walking wallet and they were going to get every penny they could. After the EKG they had to know it wasn't a HA, heck after I described the symptoms they should have known.
The whole thing offends my natural sense of efficiency. |
