About 9 visits later, the doc said they'd put her on a waiting list for an MRI scan. However, they put her on as low priority, which meant a 9 month wait.
in the US, you can get an MRI often within a few hours. Getting it read may take a little longer, and more and more that stuff is off-shored.
Anyway, I feel for you - it's an awful prospect that you have to work to live. That's totally and completely inhumane. It's totally uncivilised. I can't believe there's not more of a revolt against the current system.
well, here's the deal. yes it is inhumane. and yes it is uncivilized. but if you have a good job like i do you frankly don't think about it much. the premiums are subsidized by your employer and any time you get sick you call the doctor and they tell you to come in in an hour or two. if you have strange symptoms like your friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend with the maybe brain tumor they'll start ordering tests. lots of tests. simple tests can be performed the same day in these labs/clinics that dot our landscape now adays (labcorp,quest, etc). the only time you hear about a waiting list is if you need an organ transplant or a flu shot during a shortage. so the reality is your average joe isn't irate about it because he's got a good thing going.
if you're indigent and you go to the doctor, you still get treated. the unfortunately side-effect is that since indigent folks don't have a doctor to go to, they go to the ER for everything. This has caused serious problems with ER wait times across the country. if you're uninsured and
It's hard to compare to 'normal' people, because someone like Steve Jobs would have had an team of the very best surgeons working on him, and generally the best medical care that money could buy..
you are discounting the patient's role in healing. the best surgeons in the world are available to you or me, as they are available to jobs, however they may be more accessible to jobs. but rest assured they followed the same procedure accepted by the medical community that you would for you or me. all the money in the world isn't going to buy you a faster recovery. it takes as long as it takes, which varies by individual.
so what does wealth buy in this case? well, two things which are of concern if they are true --
* - did he move up the list faster than he should have? sure, he gamed the system by getting on the list in tennessee, but this is just part of being well informed/advised.
* - was his old liver destroyed due to metastatic cancer? as a slashdot physician (the best kind) on this topic stated, transplants are contraindicated in that case which implies that rules were broken because he's a superhero. if this is true it's kind of disgusting.
so there may be other reasons everyone has been so tight lipped about Steve's health than Steve just being Steve.
And what do you do when you no longer want to let them have access?
modify your dns to redirect all of their web requests to goatse
That's definitely another option: http://www.princeton.edu/main/admission-aid/
i would, but i'm dumb. and lazy.
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