Re: Ping: Victor

Christina Websell wrote:
> "Victor Martinez" <me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:3p3ue7F8iaarU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Christina Websell wrote:
>>> I dread to think what my recent treatment must have cost privately.
>>> One
>>
>> Well, to give you an idea. Last time I went to the emergency room
>> with a cut finger that needed 4 stitches, the actual bill was $500
>> USD. I paid only my ER co-pay, $50. I have no idea how people
>> without insurance are supposed to get care.
>>
>
> If I went to the emergency room with a finger that needed stitches,
> it would cost me nothing. Except I might have to hang around for 8
> hours before I got treated, in a room full of drunks.

Same here with the drunks - except we have the priveledge of paying for the
honor of being lumped in with them.

> Which sort of means I'd like to learn how to stitch myself up.
>
Some people do. Just make sure you have plenty of antisceptic, and
anitbiotics, else a trip to the surgery will follow in a week or so, to have
a badly infected finger removed (ouch).

> Tweed



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