Word: patient
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...didn't treat the carpal tunnel and release the pressure on the nerve in her wrist, and do it soon, she would never get better - the nerve damage would become permanent. Mattie's other problem, triggering, was bad too. It made opening her hand painful and difficult. My patient needed two small operations - just 15 minutes of actual surgery - to cure these problems...
...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 by refusing to accept it altogether. Hospitals can't afford to pay their nurses, buy medicines or give personal attention to each patient, if they're expected to treat so many, so fast, just to break even. Good for them, I thought. But, then, I looked at Mattie, and I looked at my day list of patients - fully half of them had the same kind of insurance...
...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 and the hospital. I twisted some arms for Mattie, and got the insurance company to pay the old rate for her treatment; I'll hopefully get her in soon, but this won't work for every case after hers...
...weeding. Unless her children are old enough to do the work for her, there will be less food for the family to eat when the next harvest comes in August. "Then maybe she'll have three malnourished kids instead of one," says Lemukol. In his graphs of annual patient data for the center, he has a column labeled "escaped": some mothers, with other hungry children at home, just walk out, pulling their kids out of treatment before they're medically fit to leave...
...Liebenstein is a brilliant Psychiatrist. He has a patient named Harvey. Harvey is obsessed with meteorology: he believes that he is part of a secret interdimensional war between rival groups who can control the weather. ("I handle mostly mesoscale events," Harvey says modestly. "I specialize mostly in local wind patterns.") One day, out of the blue, Leo realizes that his beautiful, much younger wife Rema has been replaced by a simulacrum, a stranger who looks almost exactly like her. Who could have switched them? And why? Then Leo starts getting interested in meteorology...