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Explaining the situation to Mattie was easier than I expected. She was a little deaf, but still a sharp cookie. She got the picture. "So, when do you fix it?" she wanted to know. I told her to make an appointment with my secretary and gave her the name of...
With age-dimmed eyes she scanned the page, jumped up, and pointing with her crooked, numb finger she put the letter in front of my face. "Right here - they don't pay if I go to that hospital," she said. "Why can't you do it in your office, doct...
I looked at the letter, and she was right. I've worked at that community hospital for 20 years, and they finally did what so many of us in medicine have been thinking about doing for so long - they said, "No." They responded to yet another insurance-company rate decrease...
So, what was I supposed to do with this patient? How could I get her to go to my other hospital, so much farther away? And how am I supposed to take care of all the others? There is no answer yet - we're waiting on negotiations between the insurer...
"The childhood obesity epidemic is a tsunami," says David Ludwig, an obesity researcher at Children's Hospital Boston and the co-author of the editorial. "We're beginning to see the wave hitting the shore."