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...local supermarket. Specifically, she dropped by a tiny clinic nestled beside the store's pharmacy, just across from the cigarette counter. There, behind a frosted-glass partition, a nurse practitioner examined Hillesheim, typing her vital signs and symptoms into a computer before giving her a prescription to treat a sinus infection. The visit took 20 minutes and cost $59. Hillesheim forked over $25, the co-pay required by her insurer. "You don't have to plan your day around this doctor appointment," she says. "You just think, 'O.K., I'm going...
...just weeks before he planned to leave his home, Case went in for a routine operation to clear his sinus passages. It ended with titanium plates replacing his sinuses and a blood clot forming in his brain...
In 1994, Kelli Lawless, 24, of O'Fallon, Mo., waited for test results she hoped would solve the mystery of her failing health. For years, she had been plagued by a string of illnesses including sinus infections, pneumonia and two bouts of shingles, but her doctor had never performed a test that would have been routine for someone else with those symptoms. "He said that people like me--a white, middle-class, non-drug-using, college-educated woman in Iowa-- didn't get HIV/AIDS." Alas, in Lawless's case, he was mistaken. Testing showed that she was positive...
...girl walks only in straight lines, talks like a lisping machine gun and has pigtails pulled so tight she looks as if she's going to explode. Another kid is a portly know-it-all with a sinus condition and a special trick of spelling his words silently in advance--by tracing them on the floor with his foot. Then there's the overachieving Asian girl who objects to being introduced as someone who speaks five languages. Actually, she says a bit resignedly, it's six. And, she wonders, do the notes about her also "say that I only sleep...
...Laverne Dumas, one of the plaintiffs in a suit against Provena Mercy Center in Aurora, Ill., went into the hospital for a severe sinus infection and was sent a $12,338 bill that included $650 a day for the room and $6 for each ibuprofen pill. Uninsured and living mainly on her husband Joe's $800-a-month pension at the time, she says she tried to negotiate a payment plan, but the hospital refused. Provena won a judgment, and today the couple pays $100 in monthly installments, with scant hope of paying off their $27,000 in hospital bills...