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catnhatnh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-18-09 04:44 PM
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Second Tier Medicine...
That's the best you get. Two stories this week and both are about cash. In the first case an actress becomes brain dead tragically and is airlifted to the US to meet with family members. In the second an actress falls and breaks a collarbone and is admitted to a hospital.

They were treated differently than the public at large.I know this because on the one hand I've been treated for one injury and for the other I've watched death treated in a pretty light fashion.

I think you should consider what the cost might be to transfer a person whom might be brain dead. It takes a shit load of existing support (generally supported by the public) that is put in place ONLY to save a life. That airplane or helicopter was never supposed to fly a corpse to a place for acknowledgment. All I'm saying is if that son or daughter were yours it might flow as well. I'll be called a bastard for saying so, but when the smoke clears, that family was treated better than you would be.

Ain't no one in your circle of friends who stays in a hospital for a fall.If you think she "deserves" it the only possible answer is she is better than yourself or your family.

Famous people get treated better. They don't deserve it.
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