This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BD2106.79F3C0A0 Hi -- This is for those who have wondered where the BLS Daily Report had gone. The following was sent out to my co-workers yesterday. As you can see below, I was quite ill and received little or no assistance from the medical profession despite my ability to pay. Dave ---------- From: Richardson_D Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 4:43 PM To: DCPPISTAFF Subject: I'm BAACK!! Hi -- Thank you to everyone who asked about me. I have had an interesting time of it. As many of you know, I rode my bike to work on Monday and arrived in a parlous state. I truly thought I might be having a heart attack and, at times, was content with the thought that the pain would go away when I died. The paramedics finally came & took me to the hospital. Pretty quickly, with the EKG, they were able to rule out a heart attack, but they insisted on keeping me overnight, an inordinate period of time, just to be sure. The next day I had a tread mill test which again confirmed that there was no damage to my heart. I then was summarily released at 8 PM with no apparent concern as to what caused my problem in the first place. It should be noted that none of these decisions were made strictly from the narrow financial point of view of the hospital -- that would be a violation of medical ethics. Nor should it be thought that the docs were simply acting like little boys playing with their toys, again an ethical violation. Nor should it be thought that the cardiac unit is slurping up all of the resources of the health care system to the detriment of the public health -- they are simply doing their jobs as best they can. Nor should it be thought that the patients' health can safely be ignored regardless of any ability to pay, which, under my Blue Cross insurance, I have. Therefore there are no serious issues here regarding the performance of the health system. On Wed. I saw Dr. Wu, a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and received an acupuncture treatment that more than doubled my lung capacity. He also gave me some herbal medicine that, after two days, cleared up my bronchitis, something 20 years of Western docs had failed to make any progress with. Thus I am celebrating being able to breathe again. Hopefully Blue Cross will pay his bill. I have been out of the office this past week mainly because of the "flu," whatever that is. In any event I have not had the energy to stay awake more than relatively short periods. No treatment was ever suggested for this condition although the hospital did replace fluids and electrolytes. So I am fine, at least as far as the medical profession can determine. I can still use the lower part of my lungs so the acupuncture treatment has been effective so far. Sometimes I still have trouble with my bronchi and I don't know what to do about it. And I really want to take a nap now -- after all I have been here since 9:40. Otherwise I'm fine, I guess. 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