10. The British medical student who saw a homeless patient who lacked insurance being led out of the hospital.
“My nationality is British. I completed a secondment in New York City when I was a student. One patient had rectal bleeding when they arrived at the emergency room.
He was homeless at the age of 23. In December, security led him out of the hospital since he had no money, insurance, or anybody to pay for his care.
I was enraged! In the UK, we still have a free point service that is paid for the tax payers. He was abandoned to perish in the United States when he might have lived here.
11. The medical insurance company attempted to prevent a guy with kidney cancer from getting a CAT scan: “A patient arrived late on Monday afternoon with left-sided abdominal discomfort.
I gave him medication for a potential illness called diverticulitis and informed him that we would have a CAT scan in the morning since.
