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- From: cookc@marcus.its.rpi.edu (rocker)
- Subject: Re: MEET GEORGE TILLER, LATE-TERM ABORTIONIST Part Two
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- Keywords: pointless stories, argument by innuendo, docs work for pay
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:32:06 GMT
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- vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
-
- >Gotta share a little story with y'all here.
-
- Be still my heart.
-
- >My mother is an ob/gyn nurse
- >and supervisor at a local suburban hospital. Several weeks ago she was
- >prepping a patient in the hospital for an elective abortion. The patient
- >was completely ready for the operation, and just before they were going
- >to start it, the doctor asked the patient if she had brought the money to
- >pay for it. The patient responded that she hadn't remembered, but that she
- >would get him the money within two days. The doctor told her to go home and
- >come back when she had the money. She went home and came back several hours
- >later with the money, and the doctor performed the abortion.
-
- Gee whillikers, I bet he put her life in some serious danger by delaying
- that elective abortion, eh?
-
- And now a story that you'll doubtless claim is somehow "different"...
-
- I was broke, uninsured, and pregnant. I had no idea how I was going to
- pay for having the baby. I called the private hospital that was second-
- closest to my house (the closest one had stopped doing OB because of
- malpractice fears) and asked them what was required for me to give birth
- there. After establishing that I had no insurance, the woman said "Well,
- we will require a deposit of $2500 before you enter the ninth month of
- pregnancy, or we will be unable to admit you...." I replied "Oh great,
- so if I don't cough up the cash, I can have the baby on the sidewalk for
- all you care." She hastily said "Oh, we wouldn't say THAT....!" but
- oddly enough, she didn't argue with the premise.
-
- >You tell me, was that doctor interested that patients health?
-
- You tell me, was the hospital interested in _either_ my own health or
- that of my offspring?
-
- > She was
- >ON the table ready for an operation and he sent her home. Talk about
- >playing with someone's fears and emotions. Imagine if you were lying on
- >the operating table, ready to have someone hacking into your body, and they
- >suddenly changed their mind and sent you home. If that doctor really cared
- >about her, he would have trusted her to pay the lousy few hundred bucks.
-
- Yeah, now imagine all that and active labor, too.
-
- So what have we learned here, kiddies? That perhaps, just perhaps,
- doctors actually work for pay. Now, aren't we all just that much more
- enlightened?
-
- Class dismissed.
-
- >Edward Simmonds
-
- -rocker
-