Doctors won't operate on 8-year-old girl because her Medicaid doesn't pay enough.

[Alabamy]

The kid's parents need $35,000 by tomorrow. :C


Isn't this when all the charities are suppose to kick in? The reason to undermine the public health option??

Missoula family seeks donations to help cover costs of 8-year-old's leg surgery

Time is running out for 8-year-old Mikaslyn Larson, and her family needs to raise $35,000 by Friday if the young girl is to get the critical leg surgery she needs.

Mikaslyn's surgery is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 16, and the Texas hospital that is willing to undertake the unusual procedure needs the money by Friday.

"Mikaslyn is the only one in the family with medical insurance and it will only cover 50 percent of the cost, which isn't enough for the hospital," said Kristine Larson, Mikaslyn's mother. "What that means is we have to raise the money."

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[Maeve]

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given to me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

I truely believe that to deny somone the medical attention they need goes against the Hippocratic Oath.

[darwinslair]

<shrug> maybe we should just enslave the doctors and make them all give us free medical care.

Tom

[Alabamy]

Well shoot we could enslave doctors or we could establish a viable public health option like pretty much every other friggin industrialized nation has done. But yea, your idea of enslaving doctors is equivalent..............

[Maeve]

Originally Posted by darwinslair

<shrug> maybe we should just enslave the doctors and make them all give us free medical care.

Tom

<shrug> don't be a doctor if you're not going to honor your oath. Not giving people, rich and poor alike, the same treatment and only viewing patients as dollar bills walking thru the door.

[Alabamy]

The oath is basically public relations at this point.

[Maeve]

Originally Posted by Alabamy

The oath is basically public relations at this point.

It's sad to hold such a power, and deny it because someone doesn't make enough money to pay you for it.

the whole thing is sore spot for me . . .

Originally Posted by Alabamy

Well shoot we could enslave doctors or we could establish a viable public health option like pretty much every other friggin industrialized nation has done. But yea, your idea of enslaving doctors is equivalent..............

Yes stealing from other people is fine. Much better then enslaving doctors. Seriously how else could we be "fair" without stealing from everyone?

.... next step will be when the skinny decide they are tired of carrying the weight of those who eat to much. after all we all pay into the same pool for the same care, so why not?

..... the sober will demand the drunk cough up theirs as well.

might as well outlaw smoking. we all know that is bad, and with a public health system why should we all carry the burden of the smokers???

[Alabamy]

You have jumped the shark with your criticism. You're so convinced of your personal righteousness that it's emotionally draining/impossible to debate you at this point.

[Alabamy]

I might try to point out no one is talking about stealing, just not subsidizing. What is the point?