Speaking of MRSA, didn’t you lose a leg to that, Karma? You got (figuratively) raped on the cost and loss of function over that one! $7500 for medication, $4500 or so for a power wheelchair (I checked into the prices last year — at some point my back injury will progress to the point where I will likely be wheelchair bound), God only knows how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in hospital bills. I was in the hospital for three days for a non-MRSA staph infection requiring I & D on my thigh in March, the Medicare rates were about $18K (my state university retirement hasn’t sent statements of payment amounts yet), if I had been private pay or fully private insurance without being on Medicare it would have been over $100K!
]]>Anywho … let’s try and be less judgemental or harsh about how a girl looks and instead judge them based on their character. None of us is perfect, far far from it. But I know we are all better than judging someone based on looks. ^^
mharris127 as for whey the medical field works this way I just don’t know. I know that I was taking 50 mg of a pill that my doctor wanted to increase to 100 mg but it didn’t come in that size, the next available single pill was 150 mg so she just prescribed me the 50 mg pill, twice daily. Simple, right? Nope. Because according to my insurance the medication wasn’t approved to be taken twice daily. I could either take the next dosage, 150 or stay on the 50 – despite the fact that my doctor was insistent I needed 100 mg, and that 150 would be too high of a dosage.
There are many people who move from one state to another because their state doesn’t allow/approve certain medications and in some cases like in the case of stem cell treatments you need to go to another country, like the UK.
There have been many massive advances in stem cell therapy for diabetes, and heart disease. But in the US these treatments aren’t approved. It’s even been used to treat cancer successfully for a long time now. For over 30 years, bone marrow has been used to treat cancer patients with conditions such as leukemia and lymphoma.
Since 2003, researchers have successfully transplanted corneal stem cells into damaged eyes to restore vision. “Sheets of retinal cells used by the team are harvested from aborted fetuses, which some people find objectionable.” When these sheets are transplanted over the damaged cornea, the stem cells stimulate renewed repair, eventually restore vision. If you want to seek this life-saving treatment, you have to leave the United States to do so.
Some yeah it may not be ideal to go to India, Mexico or Canada to do medical treatments but it is becoming more common.
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