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{weblog_name} - A TRIP DOWN HEALTH CARE LANE
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Story By Joseph Velisek. My mother made an emergency trip to the hospital last week—she’s fine, thanks for asking—and I thought a quick recap of the excursion might be in order. The following is not a knock against the doctors, nurses and other very helpful health care professionals we dealt with, but it does raise a few questions concerning the efficiency of the system they work under and under which my mother was treated. Two things to keep in mind as you read this. First, the hospital in which she stayed is state of the art and second, the Part B of dealing with the insurance coverage has yet to occur. Several weeks ago, after nursing a tennis injury that wasn’t improving, my mother, a senior citizen of the 21st century, visited her doctor and was prescribed an anti-inflammatory… read more