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Operations performed in outpatient programs include plastic surgery and some ear, nose and throat operations, as well as hernia repairs and minor orthopedic surgery. Many hospitals also find the outpatient approach ideal for the removal of benign tumors and cysts and early abortions. Even for those relatively minor operations, though, hospitals select their patients carefully, turning back the elderly or those with physical conditions that are likely to cause complications...
Some insurance companies are still reluctant to pay for outpatient operations; they equate them with office surgery, which is often not covered by medical policies. But most insurers are delighted with the moneysaving aspects of the idea. Hernia repair, for example, can cost an inpatient more than $600 in costs, exclusive of doctor's fees, at Detroit's St. John Hospital. An outpatient would pay only $301, most of it for the use of the operating room and the anesthesiologist's fees...
...particularly handicapped for the last few games because "three potential starters were lost due to injuries." Team captain Jane Elliott was forced to withdraw in mid-season due to torn ligaments, Susan Spath had to retire with a broken finger and a third player is suffering from a precocious hernia. Consequently, only seven out of fourteen players showed up for the Yale game...
...close enough to major blood vessels and nerve passageways to make an inaccurate insertion perilous. Nor are acupuncture's anesthetic effects the same for all patients. Einstein's doctors admit that their success has been tempered by failure. They had used acupuncture to anesthetize a patient undergoing hernia surgery. A third of the way into the operation, the patient began experiencing pain, causing the physicians to fall back on a conventional anesthetic...
Snyder's expenses are not unusual. John Schureman, 21, of Hollywood, developed peritonitis when his infected appendix ruptured, and then needed a second operation when the infection spread to other parts of his body. His condition, complicated by a peritoneal hernia, worsened to the point that he required three more operations, 15 pints of blood that cost $15 each, and round-the-clock care. Schureman spent nearly two months in various hospitals. His bills, which came to more than $20,000, wiped out his $3,000 savings. They also left Schureman, who works for the American Institute of Hypnosis...