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In reply to the discussion: Dying patient, 30, 'was kicked out of hospital for being "uncooperative" and forced into a taxi wher [View all]Diego_Native 2012
(65 posts)I was diagnosed, through a freak occurrence, with having colon cancer. I had no insurance, no money. I was living in my car. Wasn't even on California's version of Medicaid. One day after my diagnosis, Scripps Medical Center in San Diego operated and removed the cancerous growth on my colon. That left me with half a dozen staples and the inability to walk more than two steps. No way would I be able to recover on my own, in my situation.
Every nurse, every orderly, every doctor that saw me cared nothing about my circumstances. All they wanted was for me to survive and get better. I was never made to feel "less than" others, never marginalized, never mistreated or ignored. I certainly wasn't dumped out the door. I'm pretty sure had this happened in the southern state where I used to live, I would have never gotten the care I needed.
California is, IMO, the reason I am alive today.
There are good people and bad people everywhere.