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Teen Diagnoses Her Own Disease In Science Class
18-year-old Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting and fever for eight years. She often missed school and her doctors were unable to figure out the cause of her sickness. Then one day in January someone was finally figured out what was wrong with Jessica. That person was her. While looking under a microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue in her AP science class, Jessica noticed an area of inflamed tissue called a granuloma, which is an indication of Crohn's disease. "It's weird I had to solve my own medical problem," Terry told CNN affiliate KOMO in Seattle, Washington. "There were just no answers anywhere. ... I was always sick."
Apparently Slashdot editors spend all their free time playing video games, so that's all they know. Learning their own native language isn't as exciting as killing monsters on a video screen.
>The idiot medicos just pocketed the money for tests
US healthcare is a capitalist system. The idea that people can be treated properly is very much secondary to its main goal: maximizing profits. I think people are finally understanding what capitalism means in healthcare, thus the recent interest in socializing healthcare.
Currently its 100% legal to drag someone several years through the the system to milk their insurance. The doctors can simply argue that they wanted to be careful. The people arent quacks, theyre economically successful and understand how to play the game better than the rest. You dont pay off two mortgages and three cars by doing a good job. You do it by maximizing profits. A quick diagnosis for Crohn's is only a couple billable hours. 8 years of tests? Yeah, thats practically a summer cottage.
That's the really pathetic thing about people like you. You actually believe that the only way to get ahead is through dumb luck. That's also why you won't be rich.
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. - Winston Churchill