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- From: vaccaro@novavax.UUCP (N. Trafford Vaccaro)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.legal,alt.peeves,rec.skiing
- Subject: wrong health care, and still having to pay for it
- Keywords: misdiagnosis, malpractice, negligence, miscreant doctors
- Message-ID: <4034@novavax.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 05:02:24 GMT
- Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Lines: 38
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- Hello, everyone,
-
- You may have noticed the large number and variety of newsgroups I
- am posting this to. I am rather angry at being ripped off by
- a small town medical operation in Winter Park, Colorado, called
- the "Seven Mile Clinic".
-
- I was on a ski trip to Winter Park 6 years ago when I had to visit the
- Seven Mile Clinic. I had terrible abdominal pain, I could hardly
- walk, and I was chalk-white. They kept me there all day, until
- five o'clock. Then, they told me to leave. Just like that! One
- of the women that worked there told me to take aspirin.
-
- That night, I requested an ambulance. Instead, the man at the front
- desk of the hotel we were staying at gave me a ride 14 miles to the
- emergency room of the nearest hospital. In the ER, it was discovered
- that I had a high white blood cell count and a possible obstruction
- of the bowl. The doctor on duty requested an ambulance to send me to
- Denver for further care. At the hospital in Denver, it was discovered
- that I had internal bleeding of the spleen, that it was swollen to
- four times its normal size, and that it had to be removed. I also
- had a collapsed lung.
-
- Several weeks later, the Seven Mile Clinic sent me a bill for $300.
- They did not refer me to another hospital, they did not give me
- advice other than to take pain medication, which I understand is
- not done for severe abdominal pain. The staff at the Seven Mile Clinic
- was incompetent and negligent, and I don't want to pay them. However,
- the smug doctor at the clinic said, "You'd better pay it, Charlie.".
-
- Is there any recourse, or how do I get out of paying for shoddy work?
- If it were my car being repaired, I could contest the bill.
- They kicked me out of their clinic, bleeding to death! And charged me
- $300! A collection agency now has the account. What should I do? Should
- I pay the bill, or take them to small claims?
-
-
- N.V.
-