“I had a patient with severe diabetes who worked but had inadequate insurance. They refused to pay for his insulin. For years, his diabetes was not well managed.
When I received a gift of unopened sterile insulin, I would drive it to his place of employment and deliver it to him along with instructions.
He typically had quite high glucose, and it wasn’t enough. He passed away at the age of 62 from serious complications brought on by poorly managed diabetes.
7. The emergency room physician who saw a woman have life-saving heart surgery that her insurance would not pay for.
“We had a 27-year-old lady who was suffering a heart attack come to the ER. The on-call cardiologist implanted a stent and carried out a life-saving procedure.
Due to a newly released research that claimed a medicine was more beneficial for long-term care and that the operation was “medically unnecessary.”
