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In reply to the discussion: Dying patient, 30, 'was kicked out of hospital for being "uncooperative" and forced into a taxi wher [View all]LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)If I hadn't been there to insist that she was loopy from pain medication and fever and not uncooperative and refusing tests, they would have turned her loose and she would have died. As is, they ran the test, she was diagnosed and over 100 days of hospitalization later she surprised her doctors by surviving. That's the SECOND time my mother has almost died of what one hospital diagnosed as the flu, and a second hospital correctly diagnosed (the first time was a pulmonary embolism.)
Here's the deal: if you don't have insurance everything is the flu, and any time you insist you don't have the flu you're either pill seeking or uncooperative. The color that matters here is green.
I'm not saying racism isn't ever a factor, but the primary determining factor in the quality of your care is the thickness of your wallet.