Air Ambulance Cost

Post by **88keys** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:57 am

Honestly, after living through 5 days at UK for Ortho stuff (and believe me, I know it well) I wouldn't let any person in the place actually touch my leg period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The day Johnny wanted to check me out of the hospital,(against DR's orders of course), because we had a different surgeon, he had to be an attorney and threaten them with lawsuits if they didn't comply! It was a very different story at Samaritan where I finally had my surgery to put my leg back together!

I swear, I will never go to UK again, unless I"m ready to die!!

Post by **Saxman** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:01 am

I thought UK had one of the top Ortho teams in the country?

Post by **weber** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:27 am

Saxman wrote:I thought UK had one of the top Ortho teams in the country?

And I thought that a competent ortho surgeon might want to acheive symmetry instead of setting the lower portion of a broken leg rotated 30 freakin' degrees out of alignment!!

Rick

Post by **Josephine** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:30 am

oh dear

i'm sooooo sorry liz. here's to a speedy recovery.

Post by **Saxman** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:06 pm

Silly engineer. Didn't you know the tolerance for proper leg alignment is +-35 degrees? 30 is well within accepted tolerences

Post by **Andrew** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:15 pm

This is well within tolerances. He even won this race with his perfectly good leg.

Post by **the lurkist** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:21 pm

Rick, you should be sure the UK ortho guys hear about it. My guess is they are concerned about their quality of their work. Especially when it is being scrutinized by their colleagues in Indy. Oww.... (that is a surgeon's ego stinging with a peer rebuke- that shit smarts- it is fun to watch, though).

Pru · Post by **Pru** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:22 pm

I'm horrified (though not surprised) that a surgeon could fuck up that badly. Poor Liz.

Post by **Crankmas** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:06 pm

peer rebuke equals professional silence more than likely

Post by **enoch308** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:51 pm

I learned something about ambulance rides yesterday. A trama surgeon told me that the ambulance crews only travel in their county. One county will not let another county ambulance travel through their county. So to travel through multi countys would involve quite a bit of shuffling from one to another. And then there is the issue of the ambulance being occupied traveling the distance and leaving the county with possibly no service available to the members of that county. The helicopter service is happy to bridge that gap. That way the county EMS service does not have to pay extensive pay for out of county travel to employees and they get to keep the service available to people living in that county. The helicopter service really only expects to be reimbursed a percentage of what they charge. Like maybe 35% ? Not really sure on that. The point is the ride is not really a medical necessity as much as county politics.
As for me.........please just give me a ride. It would save me a lot of time and money. Or save my wife the trouble and just shoot me.