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I don’t remember them getting a divorce either. Since he married her when he thought she was pregnant and we all know she wouldn’t let him touch her while she was faking the pregnancy maybe he was able to get an annulment. I mean Salem is the annulment capitol of the world
Not being able to make a practice on his own is the reason my friend joined the HMO. When he first started out he joined a Pulmonary Medicine practice with 2 existing doctors. He was newly married and his wife talked him into starting his own practice. Then she wanted a house, not an existing one but she wanted one built. In his own practice he took ER call for any doc that didn’t want it hoping to get new patient’s that way but they were mostly Public Aid and he didn’t make any money. As a last resort he joined the HMO to be able to give his wife the lifestyle she wanted. Granted he had more patients and a steady income but he was part of a practice again and couldn’t practice medicine the way he wanted.
From what I read, the wedding gets started but it’s interrupted and Sami learns the truth. I’m pretty sure she’ll hear it from Rafe. I don’ know Ari has a few words for EJ after that.
On another SL, Hope gets sentenced to 2 years. That means the way our jail and prison system works and add to that the Salem Time Warp she’ll be out in a few days.
According to my SIL military doctors are even worse than HMO’s. Her husband was in the air force for years, full retirement. They lived on base most of that time and she was having some female problems. It took over a year or military docs and they found nothing, went to a non military doc and she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She had a hysterectomy and thankfully she’s a survivor, over 10 years now but still scary.
We have a blood disroder in our family, Spherocytosis. The RBC’s are irregular shape, fragile and break down in the spleen which leads to anemia and at times hemolytic crisis. One of the treatments is removing the spleen. The blood is still odd and fragile but no longer breaking down so the anemia is gone. Many in my family have had their spleens removed for this and a cousin a couple of years older than I was had his removed around 6 months of age. He was in the navy for years and during one of his many physicals during his career a navy doc asked him about his scar. He told him about the blood and spleenectomy and the doctor argued with him that they don’t remove your spleen for that.
I guess that’s an inside look at healthcare when the government controls the doc’s
I was working at a hospital when the HMO’s first came out. I have several friends who are doctors and one joined the HMO. They paid them X amount of $ to care for a patient and if they spent that amount it was fine but if they spent less they got a bonus from the HMO. They also got a bonus for keeping patients out of the hospital so they usually just prescribed medication and didn’t order tests when indicated.
A hospital got paid for diagnosis. If you came in with pneumonia they had a set amount they’d give the hospital and they could do what they wanted within certain guidelines to test and treat you. If it cost less for your care the hospital kept the extra. If, heaven forbid, you developed something else while you were in the hospital the insurance wouldn’t pay to treat that because you were already being paid for the pneumonia without a lot of red tape.
I lived in Chicago and Michael Reese Hospital was one of the first HMO’s which later became Advocate and is now Humana. The original plan was The Michael Reese Health Plan but those at hospitals called it The Michael Reese Death Plan. One of our first in patients who was on that plan came in with flu like symptoms. She’d been to her doctor several times over the course of a week for various symptoms that kept getting worse and each time she was prescribed antibiotics and told to go home and rest. Her husband had to call an ambulance to bring her in and she coded and died within 3 hours of being admitted. One of the on-call docs that evening was appalled. One blood test showed she had Toxic Shock Syndrome and if her doctor had been treating the patient rather than watching where the money went she would still be alive.
I do think doctors order too many unnecessary tests but I’m not sure it’s really to run the bills up since the doctors don’t gt paid for tests done at a hospital or clinic, only if they’re done in their office.
The reason doctors order them is because people have gotten to quick to file malpractice suits. Doctors want to cover all the bases, even the unnecessary ones to cover their butts. As long as the system allows malpractice suits for the littlest things and blames the doctors if something that’s a complication happens there will be unnecessary tests. I’m sure we’ve all seen the commercials for a law firm that tells you it’s your doctors fault if your child is born with problems or special needs. You know sometimes those things are a fluke of nature and no doctor could have prevented them from happening but there are law firms who thrive on getting people to sue if they don’t have a perfect baby. You smoked for 50 years and develop lung cancer, well let’s sue the tobacco companies because they made the cigarettes BUT they didn’t put those things in your hands and force you to smoke. No, I’m not a smoker and never have been. I hate smoking of any kind and have seen the effects smoking can have on a person but it’s not the tobacco company’s fault, it’s the smoker’s fault.
Sorry, I’m going off on a tangent here.
The "simple little antiobiotic drugs" have all been used to death so they no longer work. We’ve now got superbugs that need heavy duty toxic drugs to kill them. That’s another place where healthcare ordered something to death whether we needed it or not.
I can’t believe how doctors and other providers jack up their prices when you have insurance. When I wasn’t working and waiting for SSDI my doc saw me every 3 months at my lawyers request. He charged me $40 each visit. My husband went to the same doctor for a routine check-up and they billed the insurance over $110.
Now that I have insurance I see that they charged over $400 for a test, insurance only approves $120 of it and the provider has to accept that ad I can’t be billed for any amount over that amount. If they’re willing to accept $120 then why don’t they just bill that amount. They don’t because some poor guy who doesn’t have a good insurance plan and gets stuck paying the balance will pay and the provider makes more money.
My husband was prescribed a new med for psoraisis. The med cost $500 per bottle. With our insurance we would be paying $60 BUT the drug company has a program that you can join where the script will only cost $15. Why charge $500 if they’re willing to take less. His cardiologist told him there’s 1 med she knows of that’s $10,000 a month. Who can afford that. I realize the drug companies want to make back the money they spent on research and testing BEFORE the generics come out but maybe if the government lengthened the length of time for a patent so the generics can’t come out so fast AND force the companies to lower their prices so everyone could afford it they’d still make their money back it would only be slower.
I totally agree about unnecessary tests being ordered and adding up.
I tripped over the vacuum cleaner hose a couple of months ago and my toes bent under me as I fell forward. I thought I broke my big toe so Don (husband) tapped it to the one next to it. The next day the pain was worse and the arch of my foot as well as the top of my foot was sore and slightly swollen but my big toe was bruised so I still thought it was a toe and nothing could be done.
This was on Friday and by Monday I couldn’t walk so I went to the doc. He did an x-ray in his office and said he didn’t see a fracture but he still thought I had one and ordered a bone scan. Now, I’m only able to get slipper on and I can’t walk with any weight on that foot, I’m walking on my heel and sliding it across the floor to get around. Go for the bone scan the next day, Tuesday and it takes until Thursday to get the results. Arthritic changes OR a stress fracture. I can see a bone doc now or wait and call if it gets worse. I opted for the bone doc.
Get into the bone doc on Monday, it’s now been 1 1/2 weeks since I hurt my foot. He decides to do another x-ray which was fine with me since I do know it can take a while for fractures to show up on film. I broke not 1, not 2 but 3 bones and one of the bones had 2 breaks.
My question is, why did my doc order a bone scan when all they show are hot spots. They can’t tell what’s causing the hot spot just that there’s an abnormality and further tests are indicated. Wouldn’t a CT scan or MRI have been better to see a break. I can’t even believe my insurance was paying for this.
I agree about EJ. I don’t think he knows what love really is or what it feels like because he wan’t raised with it. He was raised that when you desire or want something you control it and you go to any means to get your hands on it. To him Sami is the prize and he might care for her and lust after her and think that’s love but is it really.
I don’t know how true this is but a friend of mine has relatives in Canada. She’d told me her uncle was diagnosed with cancer and the government looked at his age and other health problems to figure his life expectancy and decided he got 2 chemo treatments and that was it.
I can see this as the beginning of that happening here. "Oh, based on your medical problems and history you’re probably going to die in 3 years so we’re only going to invest $X for your care". That’s government run healthcare for you. Forget Quality of Life, they look at Quantity
I’m picturing the county office. When Sami requests another marriage license they automatically start the paperwork rolling for an annulment.
Cassie and Rex weren’t Stefano’s offspring, they were Romans with Kate who Marlena gave birth to. BUT none of them had any memory or knowledge whatsoever of their existence until they showed up in that space ship.
I don’t think the cop involved with the Ciera kidnapping was on the DiMera payroll. He was working for himself and had a problem with Hope.
They could even have Shawn visit her off screen. Look how many were off screen for Mickey’s funeral. How many times has something happened and they spoke with someone who was stuck in a snow storm, couldn’t get a flight out, anything but at least mention them.
Yeah, I think someone on another forum read of the actor being hired as Bill Horton and posted on that forum that he was coming back. Later it was pointed out that it had been an old post before Alices’s funeral that they had read and misinterpreted.
There’s a discussion on the Main Board about Justin not being able to represent Hope due to being one of her victims. There are no other lawyers in Salem right now besides EJ who was also a victim.
Maybe Hope will go to prison without a trial since she wants to plead guilty but eventually when Jennifer comes back to town she’ll convince her otherwise and call Frankie or Carly will feel so guilty she’ll call her brother Frankie to get Hope out of prison.
