by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 8, 2019 | Essays, Health Care Reform, Series, The Dog Days of Cancer |
We rolled up to the ER on September 7, Jack pumped with steroids and I holding it all in, getting through it. An orderly appeared with a wheelchair and wheeled us into the triage nurse, who looked exactly like Jeff Daniels. The ER was a zoo—I was immediately reminded...
by Stephanie Hayes | Jan 7, 2019 | Essays, Health Care Reform |
A Model for Compassionate and Affordable Healthcare As we in the United States struggle to find ways to fix our broken health care system, we have within our midst a good model of what health care could be in this country. As it stands now, health insurance is still...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Dec 14, 2018 | Essays, Health Care Reform, Series, The Dog Days of Cancer |
Jack and I were determined to have a beautiful summer. He’d recovered well from his brain surgery in early March when kind Dr. Girgis had removed an orange-sized tumor from his frontal lobe. Dr. Fragoso, his radiation oncologist, had confirmed that the tumor was a...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Nov 24, 2018 | Essays, Health Care Reform, Humor, Series |
November 24, 2018 Dear Swope Medical Group, Incorporated: Last Tuesday I received your bill for $1,215 for services rendered by the admitting physician at my local emergency room. My husband Jack was the recipient of Dr. Golding’s* services on 9/4/18. Jack died on...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Nov 7, 2018 | Essays, Health Care Reform, Series |
In the two and half years my husband Jack fought his cancers, we worked with over ten different doctors. Our journey began at the local hospital, circled to Stanford and up to UC Med in Sacramento, and then took an unlikely turn to Eureka, California. We spent many...
