Thread: Memorial Hospial

Originally Posted by MW

gemini wrote:

My own insurance company has screwed me over I will no longer be doing business with Geico ever again after this.

In that case you may be interested in this:

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7anYbfo ... re=related

That's the best laugh I've had in the past 2 weeks. Thanks!

I'm having a similar problem right now, but with a Drs office, not the ER. I have juvenile (type 1) diabetes. I had a positive pregnancy test, went to a clinic to have it confirmed, and the ultrasound showed the embryo was dead. I was told to wait for a miscarriage. When I didn't miscarry by 10 weeks I went to my ob/gyn who couldn't find a heartbeat and measured me at 5 weeks. She told me get another ultrasound to confirm there was no living embryo so she could do a d&c. I couldn't miss time from work, so she told me go to the ER. After waiting 10 hours, and being told I may be seen the next day, I left. I got an u/s 2 weeks later, which showed my dead embryo is now a live fetus, and I'm 14 weeks pregnant, with no prenatal care, since I was told 2x it was dead. So I'm referred to the high risk ob/gyn who I saw during my other 2 pregnancies, and am told today they can get me in Jan 8, when I will be 18 weeks 3 days pregnant (and diabetic, with no prenatal care, almost 1/2 way through the pregnancy). Why such a long wait? Because I live in Tucson, where all the illegals from Mexico who are pregnant and diabetic (with type 2 diabetes which is usually caused by being overweight, which is preventable, not an autoimmune response, which is not preventable like type 1) love to come for their excellent and FREE medical care. The average wait to see an endocrinologist for a first appt is 6+ months, and now I have to wait an entire month to get an appt for a high risk pregnancy because there are so many illegals and not enough drs? And everywhere I look there are advertisements saying everyone deserves health care, and everyone deserves to give their baby the best start. But what about Americans who have to stand in line with the illegals and wait this long? Is my baby getting "the best start" NO. There aren't enough ER docs for all the illegals. They should be sent to free clinics and stand in line with other illegals only. Let them deal with the long waits for ER or prenatal care. It's not like I can go to Mexico and be seen. I don't trust their health care and I wasn't born there. They were born there, let them deal with it. It's ok that Americans have to wait longer in ERs and longer to see specialists that deal with health problems more prevelant in foreignors culture, because the only thing that matters is illegals DESERVE it? Can someone explain this to me? Maybe a troll? I would appreciate the opinion of a troll. What should I do? This is the only high risk office (it's in a major hospital) that treats pregnant type 1 diabetics that also accepts my insurance and they only see diabetics one day of the week. Should I go to a free clinic with terrible care and wait with all THOSE illegals (and also the homeless, so I can pick up some weird disease while I'm at it - that will be good for the baby!) So trolls and illegal lovers, please respond.

Originally Posted by Steph

I'm having a similar problem right now, but with a Drs office, not the ER. I have juvenile (type 1) diabetes. I had a positive pregnancy test, went to a clinic to have it confirmed, and the ultrasound showed the embryo was dead. I was told to wait for a miscarriage. When I didn't miscarry by 10 weeks I went to my ob/gyn who couldn't find a heartbeat and measured me at 5 weeks. She told me get another ultrasound to confirm there was no living embryo so she could do a d&c. I couldn't miss time from work, so she told me go to the ER. After waiting 10 hours, and being told I may be seen the next day, I left. I got an u/s 2 weeks later, which showed my dead embryo is now a live fetus, and I'm 14 weeks pregnant, with no prenatal care, since I was told 2x it was dead. So I'm referred to the high risk ob/gyn who I saw during my other 2 pregnancies, and am told today they can get me in Jan 8, when I will be 18 weeks 3 days pregnant (and diabetic, with no prenatal care, almost 1/2 way through the pregnancy). Why such a long wait? Because I live in Tucson, where all the illegals from Mexico who are pregnant and diabetic (with type 2 diabetes which is usually caused by being overweight, which is preventable, not an autoimmune response, which is not preventable like type 1) love to come for their excellent and FREE medical care. The average wait to see an endocrinologist for a first appt is 6+ months, and now I have to wait an entire month to get an appt for a high risk pregnancy because there are so many illegals and not enough drs? And everywhere I look there are advertisements saying everyone deserves health care, and everyone deserves to give their baby the best start. But what about Americans who have to stand in line with the illegals and wait this long? Is my baby getting "the best start" NO. There aren't enough ER docs for all the illegals. They should be sent to free clinics and stand in line with other illegals only. Let them deal with the long waits for ER or prenatal care. It's not like I can go to Mexico and be seen. I don't trust their health care and I wasn't born there. They were born there, let them deal with it. It's ok that Americans have to wait longer in ERs and longer to see specialists that deal with health problems more prevelant in foreignors culture, because the only thing that matters is illegals DESERVE it? Can someone explain this to me? Maybe a troll? I would appreciate the opinion of a troll. What should I do? This is the only high risk office (it's in a major hospital) that treats pregnant type 1 diabetics that also accepts my insurance and they only see diabetics one day of the week. Should I go to a free clinic with terrible care and wait with all THOSE illegals (and also the homeless, so I can pick up some weird disease while I'm at it - that will be good for the baby!) So trolls and illegal lovers, please respond.

Go ask the folks on Hispanic Business forum Tony Cheek seems to have all the answers.