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...total bill came to exactly $11,960. That's for less than four hours in an E.R. bed, intravenous painkillers, CAT scans, a doctor prodding my belly for a minute or so and, lest I forget, the catheter for an emergency urine analysis. The stone passed naturally that same night...
Starting with expensive procedures like CAT scans. The clearer and more comprehensive x-ray imaging known as computerized tomography (CT) is certainly one of the most valuable recent advances in medical technology. But doctors are gorging on it: the number of CAT scans performed in the U.S. each year has leapt more than 200% in the past decade, and a third of them are likely unnecessary, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. The overuse is acute in cities like Miami because doctors and hospitals feel they have to justify the glut of CT machines and related personnel they...
That's helping to drive costs through the roof. I had no idea when they wheeled me into the CT salon to detect my kidney stone that I was getting not one but two CAT scans performed - abdominal and pelvic - at almost $3,500 a pop. I've since learned from medical experts that one would have sufficed. And even if my insurance provider did end up paying closer to $2,000 for each scan, that's still well above the less than $1,500 average CT screening cost...
...more spontaneous protests, with turnouts of perhaps a few hundred, are still a cat-and-mouse tussle with wary security forces, most of whom are no longer armed with guns. But the Basij have responded to the increasing fearlessness of the protesters - many no longer run away from tear gas, and according to one witness, some have kicked the canisters back at the riot police. Now the Basij go at the demonstrators with chains, whips, Tasers and metal pipes. One protester said she has seen them use paintball guns to tag protest leaders for later arrest. At a recent press...
...have-a-girlfriend-back-home” excuse can sometimes backfire, as happened in Kogo in the south of the country last weekend. Suffering the usual barrage of offers and cat-calling to nearby females, I confidently apologized with my “already-taken” status. The men I was with simply replied, “So what?” I went on to explain that in America, it is not considered appropriate to cheat on one’s significant other (explaining the concept of “cheating” is another long story). This...