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- From: fzjaffe@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (Rory Jaffe)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Heart attack vs. indigestion; was: Re: Angiography
- Message-ID: <15634@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 05:27:28 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.201939.6265@ibmpcug.co.uk> <1992Jul29.043243.29269@athena.cs.uga.edu> <15899@pitt.UUCP>
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- In article <15899@pitt.UUCP> km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum) writes:
- >When you go to the ER with chest pain, you do not have to wait.
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- Hopefully. Of course when my father went to Kaiser, they made him wait.
- New onset, prolonged chest pain in a 64-year-old. So of course they
- sent him home. It was a fairly big ischemic area (sufficient to put him
- into cardiogenic shock). He ended up getting a balloon pump, then
- emergent CABG elsewhere. After a short note from me, Kaiser paid the
- medical bills (they were initially reluctant). Sort of put me off of
- HMO's.
-
- P.S. Kaiser has improved markedly since then. I think the general
- headaches now produced by various third-party payors and other factors
- making private practice less appealing have improved the quality of
- physicians seeking work in HMO's.
-