by Leonard Daneman, paraleaglenm, ©2024
(Dec. 17, 2024) — Close the borders, repeal the Emergency Medical Treatment Act, and give hospital Healthcare Systems ‘privity’ to personal injury insurance settlements. This ‘privity’ model will give emergency services and continuing care given by hospitals to patients injured in accidents first access to settlement, instead of lawyers.
That is the conclusion I came to after six years of suffering and research. I suffered under personal injury settlement practices where the people who helped me first, stabilized my condition, and gave me care for years were the LAST ONES to gain access to the insurance settlement.
IS THAT FAIR?
In a more recent healthcare crisis, I couldn’t see a urologist, not even a doctor! I was stuck seeing a PA who kicked my ‘can’ down the road. Before I could visit her referral I ended up in the ER, an incompetent intake nurse misreading the ultrasound, and I sat in the ER in morbid pain for 3 hours while watching the staff scurry to take care of an indigent person, possibly an illegal alien. A woman next to me was bent over, moaning in pain. She also was waiting forever for help.
After I finally recieved care, and relief from off-the-chart pain (my bladder was slowly rupturing) the attending physician rushed into my room, looked at the chart, and personally apologized for me . . . panic and care was in his eyes. That incident, that could have been avoided with more immediate care by a doctor, not a PA, resulted in complications. I almost died of sepsis. And has taken six years to recover my health.
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Thank you, Leonard A. Daneman
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