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...financial staff, which confirmed that MUSC did not have a liver-transplant contract with Hunter's carrier, Physician's Health Plan. But, Rubin was told, Duke, where he knew the liver people, did have a PHP contract. So the physician recommended that Hunter go there. Rubin placed a call to Duke hepatologist James Trotter, explaining that he had a seriously ill transplant candidate and that he understood that the insurer, PHP, had a contract with Duke to do liver transplants. Trotter, according to Rubin, said he recognized PHP as a Duke contractor and arranged to have a plane pick Hunter...
SEPT. 3 A phone call from Joe Robbins, a Duke financial coordinator, to Jackie Brown, PHP's transplant coordinator, was the first anyone at the insurance company knew of Hunter's whereabouts. Both recognized that the patient was "out of network," but it would be weeks before anyone would sort out how it was that Hunter ended up in a hospital with no plan to pay for an operation that could cost anywhere from $80,000, if the procedure went smoothly, to perhaps $1 million, if complications arose. The precipitating error apparently took place in the back offices of MUSC...
...Saturday, Hunter slipped into a coma. Dr. Tuttle upgraded him to highest-priority status and put out a call through the organ-transplant network for a liver. Labor Day weekend, normally a period offering a bumper crop of organs because of holiday traffic deaths, came and went without a prospect. TUESDAY 10:00 A.M. Todd remains in a coma, his liver shot, his skin yellow to his toes. Retribution is in the air midmorning when Brown reaches Trotter, demanding to know why Hunter is not at UNC. Their conversation is "spirited," according to Trotter, "emotionally charged," according...
Sounds pretty exciting, doesn't it? Like maybe the main character will be some sort of cyborg police officer saving the world from space pirates in the year 3020. Well, he's not, and it would be a stretch to call this movie exciting. A mighty long stretch...
...gets excited about "the fire engine, the hoses and the nozzles and the rapidly flashing lights and the scream of the siren." What makes me stop and watch, what makes my heart race is something far different. I stop because firefighters are heroes. They wait every day for a call that requires them to put their lives in danger...