There are clear protocols for ordering CT scans of the brain in pediatric patients (all patients, actually - but we worry about radiation exposure in kids) - if the test was ordered by a hospital employed MD who didn’t follow those guidelines 1) they should be reprimanded 2) I’d strongly contest the bill.
MM MD
Wow, thanks.
The math in that post is off. If you are only making $24k a year you’ll get to keep almost $11k of the UBI after taxes
This reminded me of the crazy medical bill my cousin shared last week.
She went to the ER, signed in, then after 5 minutes left because she decided that it wasn’t worth the bill. Or so she thought she was avoiding a bill…
A month later she received a bill for $900 (reduced down to $400 after her insurance covered $500 of it). Just for signing in.
So yeah, we need Medicare For All.
If you like give me the age of the kid, presence or absence of vomiting/loss of consciousness, and I’ll let you know.
MM MD
I just asked my wife and was surprised that it was 5 years ago. Time flies. She was 12 or so. She may have thrown up and said she was dizzy. My wife thought the witness was being led and she was just saying yes. Like she answered “a little” or something like that. No loss of consciousness.
She got hit with a ping pong paddle playing ping pong at school and I don’t think it even really left a mark.
So, the criteria would be
so, yeah, your kid got scanned for no reason. Unless she started drinking early, I suppose.
MM MD
Basically Tulsi is getting in because 14 Republicans said they were Democrats supporting Tulsi when contacted by that polling company.
They want to err on the side of allowing too many people rather than too few. They want qualitative criteria pre-determined without knowing the shape of the field. They want a rule that would be fair in all previous primaries so that they can’t be accused of bias.
Agreed that rounding to meet a threshold is ridiculous.
If it’s the same kid (the one writing articles about gilets jaunes), my rough understanding is she’s cool but not that cool.
I think it’s clear that the benefit should be not taxed as income. I mean, if you don’t want people with income over $100,000 to get it then you just give it to them but increase tax rates on regular income so that they end up neutral. People don’t like taxes, but if you provide it but claw it back at source that’s a ton of ammo for the inevitable right wing attacks on the program as handouts to undeserving welfare queens etc. I think that when people receive checks in the mail that they can spend, their emotional reaction will be to support that program even if they pay more taxes somewhere else. People are stupid and illogical and emotional about taxes, so I don’t see why liberals wouldn’t take advantage of that.
So, I think she was definitely scanned for no reason. Talking further with my wife, she says our kid, then 12 and this is believable, was basically saying ‘yes’ to all their questions. Whatever it was.
Have you been vomiting? Yes.
Dizzy? Yes.
Double-vision? Which one of you said that?
Focal neurologic deficit? I don’t know what that is, but put me down for that too.
And the doctor was like - shrug, we gotta do a CT scan then.
Thoughts on the case of the 12 year old patient looking to win the prize of lots of time in waiting rooms and delightful medical procedures?
Different kid. I have two of them. The younger one doesn’t come up as often because she’s not the political radical, though she was the one who brought the Bern into the house in the first place, like early in 2015.
Still sounds pretty cool imo.
Alyssa-Milano & Jbiden.
That gets tough - if you go down the list and the answer is “yes” to any of them that I listed, your options are CT or 4-6 hours of observation. We’re too busy to hold you in the ER (I need the bed) so you’re going to be admitted, which leads to all other issues and expenses - and god forbid you don’t scan a kid that does meet criteria and they have a bad outcome - so it sounds like the doc may have been stuck.
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