What good is getting a diagnosis if you can't pay for the treatment. I'm stuck in this position right now. American health insurance is nothing but a glorified discount plan/coupon book scam.
Aviandelight
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I believe the only time it is designed like that is for autologous donations. That is where you donate specifically for yourself ahead of time for a procedure. This is really helpful for people with special blood needs or religious exemptions but it's not really done too often. The only other case I can think of off the top of my head is that new moms can have cord blood banked for personal future use or donate it to stem cell research.
Do you get lab tests done or annual vaccinations? Because many components used in these products are also provided from processing blood donations. Blood donations are never wasted as everything gets used for something in healthcare. Check out the AABB site for more information. Blood donations are a true gift.
This is the best news I've had all week!
The two emergency stop buttons had me laughing hard.
Technically this is a grey area and they are blatantly misusing the exception for court order/warrant rule. HIPAA just states that records must be turned over but doesn't get into details concerning how much or how little should be provided. I really can't believe the judge allowed this but I suspect (hopeful anyway)that this will get kicked up to a federal court since federal law supercedes state laws.
That is a really cool website!
They sound like a lovely person. I'll have to give the band a listen.
Yea I don't think we're getting the whole story here. I'm very certain that the hospital knew that records were being manipulated. The sheer number of people who have to look at and interact with a patient's chart guarantees that others knew of the manipulation occuring. The whole "restructuring" comment is not a good look either. I hope the whole system is sued into oblivion.
Reminds me of cabbage patch dolls with the signature on the booty.
Checking in from mander.xyz
Can confirm I am a Linux lurker who would love to learn all this cool shit but right now I don't have the time/mental fortitude to wade through all the bullshit and experiment. I already do that enough with power platform at work and I know that I know nothing. It's exhilarating and tiresome. It would be great if we could have some "training wheels" type of community on here to help new users out.