Originally posted by GtoRA2
GREENTENERAL
if you needed 15 bucks worth of medication, why didnt you buy it yourself?
I did not know of the medication, as they refused to diagnose. In our system, there is a clear distinction between stablization and treatment. Treatment is taking care of the problem, while slabilization is taking care of the affects of the problem.
In my case, I had a black pleuresy which causes the tissue behind the lung to fill will blood. In that case, treatment is an anti-inflamatory medication at $15, and stabilization where they put a candula in your back, and drain the blood at $2000 to $5000 a pop. In most cases, the stabilization is cheaper, because the person dies of the illness, but not for pleuresy, where the treatment is cheaper.
I would have died had I not met someone who had the same condition (that was a rich man, with better insurance than mine, being cash) who told me that he was prescribed Ibuprofin.
Lo and beho! $100 dolars worth does the trick, and is standard treatment of pleuresy, which is a word that all of the doctors that I went to during those 4 years were never even allowed to say, as it would imply a diagnosis. Now, I owe $163,000 in medical bills that I will never pay.
