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 Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:27 pm
ok heres the fix.
a lady needs a surgerey and goes to the hospitol uses medicare.
a fresh out of school scrub nurse leaves scisors in the patients body and a clamp still atatched to the liver. the week later she needs a transplant for her liver but hmo will only cover it in dallas the closest place(lives in lousiana) so she goes there it turns out that there was a complication she needs another surgerey theres a delay a waiting list and she dies all do you think the system is brocken and if so please comment on how it could be better
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:06 pm
TRANSLATION:
What if: A nurse leaves surgery tools (why a nurse is working inside somebody's body, don't ask me) inside of a patient. The next week, she needs a liver transplant but HMO will only cover it two states away, in Texas. The woman goes to Texas to get the surgery, but then she needs another surgery because of complications in it. There is a waiting list for surgery, and she dies.
Discuss:
The lady!
Do you think the HMO is a broken system?
How can the HMO be improved?
/I won't personally contribute to this. I know nothing of health care, or the accuracy of this sort of story.
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 6:33 am
I have heard of stories similar to this (unfortunately I do not have the link right now), but yes, both Canada and the U.S.A. are in need of a better health care system. The waits are too long, there's a shortage of doctor, and some procedures are rushed or to expensive for most people to afford (in Canada we get a bit more help with health care costs).
Personally, I think the health care system and government system is broken (but the government is a different topic xd ).
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