Most of my patients are uninsured--especially now, as more and more people lose their jobs and health insurance. When my patients have no insurance, it limits the care they can get.
One day, a radiologist called me about one uninsured patient whose
liver ultrasound showed multiple lesions in the liver with
retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy--likely metastatic cancer, spreading bad. She asked me who I wanted to refer him to. I asked her to send him to the emergency room of the county hospital so he could access the care he needed. Otherwise he might have to wait months for a specialist appointment, while the cancer spread further! Now budget cuts threaten to limit the services at this safety net hospital.
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I'm a family physician. I work in Chicago's South Side, in a community health center.