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Dad with Stage 4 cancer dies after insurance company said tumor-shrinking treatment was ‘not medically necessary’ (nypost.com)

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[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 76 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Life is not medically necessary

In fact its a massive risk factor.

[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

I work in EMS. My advice to students and brand new EMTs is always the same: don't freak out when your patient is in cardiac arrest. Those are the easy calls. I have to keep people alive and if someone is crashing in front of me I have to figure out why and what I can try to do to stop it so they don't die. The ones that are already in cardiac arrest aren't getting any more dead, and the only outcomes are that we improve on that or we don't. We can't make them worse. Dead is the most stable condition.

Edit: That said, one of my favorite things about working in EMS is that I don't have to care about "medically necessary" or insurance companies. If I think my patient needs a treatment and it's in my protocol to give it, I give it. I don't have to ask for an insurance company's approval or get a payment method from my patients, I just get to help people.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

Yeah, but then your patients often get a 3000 dollar "ambulance" bill bcz ambulance companies are still privately run.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 27 minutes ago

Some places have volunteer-only EMT services, and still charge thousands of dollars for an ambulance ride...

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 16 points 2 hours ago

Imagine all medicine working that way.

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 hours ago

Thank you for your service and for sharing your insight.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago

It's the ultimate pre-existing condition.