[UA] A question

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 01:16 PM 12/15/2000 -0600, you wrote:

>Keep in mind I did say initial treatment.  After he's stable, the hospital
can
>move him to one preferred by his insurance.  If he has no insurance (which
seems
>likely, from what you say), then they are only obligated by law to patch
him up
>enough that he won't die.  He may qualify for Medicaid, which is socialized
>medicine in a country without socialized medicine.  He may have to declare
>himself indigent, and he'll probably end up paying something.

This has led to a practice known as "dumping" where a hospital treats an
indigent person, then shuffles him off to another hospital.  I'm fuzzy on
the details, but I think I've got a medical ethics text somewhere that
discusses it...

-G.
Critics are like medical students: they always think a writer is suffering
from the very disease they happen to be studying at the time.
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