Righteous anger..........
Aug. 28th, 2009 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osodecanelaI'm way aggravated right now.
My physician's assistants saw a woman here in my office back in February for some lung complaints, as well as for some abdominal pain. He ordered a chest x-ray, and some labs, none of which got done because she was uninsured and couldn't afford them.
She was in here again on Tuesday, looking really poorly. She finally went and got the chest x-ray this past weekend. It showed a pleural effusion (fluid around the lung), a lung infiltrate, and a bunch of mediastinal nodes. When she got here she had a really tender belly, and what felt like an abdominal mass. She went from here directly to the emergency room, and is now in patient, in the ICU' s step down unit.
Diagnosis? Ascities, a pericardial effusion, near cardiac tampanade, a pleural fusion, and bottom line of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma which is already spread widely. Initial site of the cancer is as yet unclear.
Might this lady of have had a much better chance at survival had this been diagnosed last February? Do I really need to answer that?
We so need a public option for healthcare in this country now!
My physician's assistants saw a woman here in my office back in February for some lung complaints, as well as for some abdominal pain. He ordered a chest x-ray, and some labs, none of which got done because she was uninsured and couldn't afford them.
She was in here again on Tuesday, looking really poorly. She finally went and got the chest x-ray this past weekend. It showed a pleural effusion (fluid around the lung), a lung infiltrate, and a bunch of mediastinal nodes. When she got here she had a really tender belly, and what felt like an abdominal mass. She went from here directly to the emergency room, and is now in patient, in the ICU' s step down unit.
Diagnosis? Ascities, a pericardial effusion, near cardiac tampanade, a pleural fusion, and bottom line of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma which is already spread widely. Initial site of the cancer is as yet unclear.
Might this lady of have had a much better chance at survival had this been diagnosed last February? Do I really need to answer that?
We so need a public option for healthcare in this country now!
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Date: 2009-08-29 08:05 pm (UTC)I am so disgusted by for-profit health care and the "I've got mine, screw you" attitude on this issue.