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05-11-2009, 08:34 PM #1
Too broke for the ER, patients flee
Too broke for the ER, patients flee
Recession forces many to leave ‘against medical advice,’ doctors say
Jesse Ashlock of Brooklyn, N.Y., was knocked unconscious in a bicycle accident last July that also left him scraped and bruised.
In hindsight, maybe Jesse Ashlock shouldn’t have walked out of the New York emergency room last summer, only a couple hours after being knocked unconscious in a Brooklyn bicycle crash.
Medical crews told him he needed a blood test, chest X-rays and probably a CT scan to check for head injuries. And he certainly should have had treatment for major road rash, including raw scrapes on his face, neck and hands.
But the 31-year-old editor for a design magazine was between jobs, briefly without health insurance and afraid of being stuck with a sky-high hospital bill. The doctor on duty dismissed Ashlock’s questions about cost, telling him she was “a physician, not an accountant,â€NO AMNESTY
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