alarcojon
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Fri Jun-16-06 02:56 PM
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A rant on health care and capitalism |
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As many of you know, I am battling leukemia (doing well these days, BTW). Anyway, I am at a big research hospital now, and yesterday I had an attempted spinal tap. A physician's assistant tried to get into the spinal fluid but was unable to. She said they are successful 90% of the time.
Anyhow, as I understand it, you can use fluoroscopy to find the spine pretty much every time, but I guess a doctor needs to perform it. So I'm figuring they use P.A.'s first because they pay them less than doctors, even figuring in the 10% of the time they have to pay a P.A. AND a doctor. So I (and the hospital) just got unlucky, I guess.
Thanks for reading my little rant. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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lovuian
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Fri Jun-16-06 03:05 PM
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1. Saying Prayers for you to get better... and yes the healthcare |
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is collapsing before our eyes... Its terrible care and yet we are paying tremendous prices...
Keep hanging in there ...:hug:
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Warpy
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Fri Jun-16-06 03:06 PM
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2. I've had a couple of those |
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without fluoroscopy, so I would ASSume (wrong of me, I know) that you might have some sort of structural abnormality making the procedure a little more difficult from the getgo. In fact, I've never seen one performed anywhere but at bedside, although I know they are for people with spinal arthritis more advanced than mine, for example.
The other possibility is that fluoroscopy is a fail safe for using PAs instead of doctors to perform the procedure.
In any case, I'm sorry you had to go through it without success.
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