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Tue 11 Jul, 2006 09:51 am
Two patients limp into two different medical clinics with the same
complaint. Both have trouble walking and appear to require a hip
replacement. The first patient is examined within the hour, is x-rayed
the same day and has a time booked for surgery the following week.
The second sees his family doctor after waiting a week for an
appointment, then waits eighteen weeks to see a specialist, then gets
an x-ray, which isn't reviewed for another month and finally has his
surgery scheduled for a year from then.
Why the different treatment for the two patients?
The first is a Golden Retriever. The second is a Senior Citizen.
The Golden Retriever had better insurance??
BumbleBeeBoogie- Either you have unbeliveably lousy insurance, or you are living in the middle of nowhere. I cannot imagine anyone in the US having to wait a year, or even a few months, for a hip replacement. It IS true though, that if you want to see a top specialist, you might have to wait quite a few weeks for an appointment.
People from my neck of the woods are having hip replacements all the time.
More people have hip replacements than golden retrievers, resulting in lower demand for services?
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