Doctors watched patient die as the patient was $14 short of paying the bill

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Early yesterday morning, two patients arrived at Lian Jiang town hopistal, one one them, named Zheng Kendi, was in a shock due to blood loss. but by 6am Zheng still couldn’t get a blood transfusion despite his families plea. one of his relative said, Zheng was refused a transfussion because the family were $14 short in cash.
At 6am, Zheng’s injury suddenly worsened, 21min later his heart and breath stopped, 45min later Zheng was declared dead.

Witnessing the event:
Shock and in great need of transfussion.
Zheng was injured before 3am yesterday near LianJian Guantou Tunnel. He’s a motorbike taxi driver. riding with 2 passengers on dark streets, he lost control of his bike and fell off near the tunnel. Zheng and Yang, a female passenger, was seriously injured. the other passenger received only light injuries.

an ambulance took Zheng and Yang to LianJiang town hospital. according to medical records the time is 3am o’clock.

Among Zheng’s relatives, Lan Chuanhua, Zheng’s wife, arrived at the hospital first. she said, it was deep at night when she knew her husband was injured, she took with herself $275, that was all the cash she had.

Arriving at the hospital, she said her husband lost lots of blood. and he’s still in a hemorrhage. his clothes and trousers were soaked with blood. he seemed to be in great pain and blood was coming out of his mouth when speaking to his wife.

the $275 allowed Zheng to be checked. the hospital gave him supersonic-B, skull CT, electrocardiograph, blood tests, X-ray imaging, almost every check in hospital.

one official of the hospitals stated: When Zheng arrived, the hospital actively checked him. the result were fracture, hemorrhage shock, internal organ damage suspected.

At 4:55am all tests were finished, Zheng’s blood type was “A”, the hospital labelled Zheng’s tranfussion requirement “Emergency”

3 relatives tried to bargain with the hospital about the costs of transfussion.

Zheng’s wife’s sister first went to the blood storage room to fetch the blood for tranfussion. but when she arrived, she found the remains of $275 wasn’t enough to pay for one bag of blood. a female worker there told her directly, “not enough money, no blood”
Zheng’s wife’s sister’s husband tried again but was told the same words. by then half an hour has passed.
Zheng’s wife went to the blood storage room twice within 10min around 6am, begging for a bag of blood. her voice was frequently interrupted tears when recalling “I didn’t know how to obtain a bag of blood, I said to that female worker ‘I’ll put my cell phone and wedding ring here as a deposit, please give me a bag of blood’” both time that hospital refused.

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Hospital’s rule killed Zheng?
after the event, Chen Jiqiang, vice manager of the hospital, began negotiating with Zheng’s relatives.
Chen said that they had their own rules, “if every department could obtain blood when needed, the hospital would be in chaos”
a medical work beside said “no use even you use your personal property as deposit”
Chen explained “we have patients escape the hospital without paying the bill every year, losing thousands of dollars every year” because of this Chen believe the blood storage worker did just the right thing. Chen finished his explanation with the words “We only rescue the emergency, not the poor”
Under these rules, relatives went to and fro between the ICU and blood storage room in vain, one relative said “medical workers around said incredible terrible words to us” for example, the blood storage worker said “no money? you won’t get one drop of blood.” and a surgeon said “you don’t have the blood? I won’t operate on Zheng, it’s none of my business”

Vice manager Chen said “If there’s anything wrong with our hospital, it’s that relatives were dissatisfied with what some doctors and nurses said” Chen failed to mention what words relatives are dissatified with.

another note: Immediately after find herself short on cash, Zheng’s wife informed other relative to collect money. but when they hurried to the hospital at 7am, Zheng had already passed.
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Wow.

Where exactly did this happen? From the names, it sounds like China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan, but I don’t see anything about where the hospital actually was. (Nice job on the translation, BTW.)
 
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Fujian Province China
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Figures - What else should we expect from a country that routinely performs Abortions by injecting poisons into the skulls of babies as they are leaving the Birth Canal?! What else should we expect from a country that slaughtered 7,000 of its own citizens for protesting for democracy?! What else should we expect from a country that is in the process of eradicating the Tibeting culture from the earth?!

I could go on, but the Communist Chinese disregard for human life and human rights is well-known, as is the craven decision by most western nations to place Trade Relations over Human Rights in their relations with Red China.

Nothing, not even a thousand incidents like the one you described, is going to change that.

Blessed are they who act to stop the slaughter of the Innocent, Michael
 
A lot of people in the US think that health care is not a right, but a privilege of those who can afford it.

This may be an extreme example, but it’s similar in concept.

I wonder if Hillary-care would have been any better. Probably would have gotten the blood for free but died while getting the paperwork authorized.
 
could this sort of thing happen in america? not sure how your health service works, is it a case no insurance no care?
 
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cainem:
could this sort of thing happen in america? not sure how your health service works, is it a case no insurance no care?
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I am sure that it happens in some places but a large majority of places will provide care and then bill you major $$$ for services provided!
 
In the US, emergency rooms can’t turn away anyone who needs medical care. Things such as emergency surgery and blood transfusions are done as quickly as possible, without worrying about payment. For those without insurance who can’t afford the costs, the hospitals generally waive a large portion of the fees, and will work out payment plans and such. In many cases, the hospital ends up eating the cost entirely.
 
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Tom444:
In the US, emergency rooms can’t turn away anyone who needs medical care. Things such as emergency surgery and blood transfusions are done as quickly as possible, without worrying about payment. For those without insurance who can’t afford the costs, the hospitals generally waive a large portion of the fees, and will work out payment plans and such. In many cases, the hospital ends up eating the cost entirely.
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This does cause problems for the hospitals, and it makes it worse that people without health insurance use emergency rooms when they don’t need them, because they can’t be refused and they worry about paying the bill later.

Private doctors apparently can refuse patients who do not pay.

This is one of the reasons in favor of (shudder) universal health insurance, but I usually don’t hear it because advocates are usually too busy playing the race and social status and “unfair” cards to say things that make sense.

The other option would be to go absolutist. No pay, no service. It would be nice if someone came up with a truly innovative approach that may actually work, other than just trying to emulate other systems that have their own strengths and weaknesses. I don’t know the answer. Without any insurance right now, I just hope I don’t become Part of the Problem.

Alan
 
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Tom444:
In the US, emergency rooms can’t turn away anyone who needs medical care. Things such as emergency surgery and blood transfusions are done as quickly as possible, without worrying about payment. For those without insurance who can’t afford the costs, the hospitals generally waive a large portion of the fees, and will work out payment plans and such. In many cases, the hospital ends up eating the cost entirely.
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Have you ever looked at the forms that are required to be filled out to get a waiver on payment?? I had to help an elderly friend fill them out…they make them so difficult and unclear you just want to give up!
 
well i’m glad you don’t leave them to die because they lack cash, alan you said something interesting about insurance if you had a broken leg would they treat/reset it without insurance? or god forbid a more serious long term illness?
 
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well i’m glad you don’t leave them to die because they lack cash, alan you said something interesting about insurance if you had a broken leg would they treat/reset it without insurance? or god forbid a more serious long term illness?
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The comment I made about insurance was partially a political one, so I’m not sure what you meant in terms of this discussion. I meant to agree with Tom444 but add a political twist, regarding a big fiasco here in the US that involved pans Hillary Clinton tried very hard to implement as president, with her husband’s support. (Just kidding, technically her husband was president, but she has made statements that “we” are president so I think they get confused. 😛 ) Tom444 may know more about it than I do in terms of answering you.

I’ve gone into emergency rooms and had work done on one child and myself with no insurance and no visible means to pay. They treated it, then billed later. They will accept payment arrangements usually with no interest. The problem I mentioned (and I’m not sure you are referencing) is that without insurance private doctors may refuse patients, but with emergency rooms bound to treat all, that many use ER improperly simply because they can.

Alan
 
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AlanFromWichita:
The comment I made about insurance was partially a political one, so I’m not sure what you meant in terms of this discussion. I meant to agree with Tom444 but add a political twist, regarding a big fiasco here in the US that involved pans Hillary Clinton tried very hard to implement as president, with her husband’s support. (Just kidding, technically her husband was president, but she has made statements that “we” are president so I think they get confused. 😛 ) Tom444 may know more about it than I do in terms of answering you.

I’ve gone into emergency rooms and had work done on one child and myself with no insurance and no visible means to pay. They treated it, then billed later. They will accept payment arrangements usually with no interest. The problem I mentioned (and I’m not sure you are referencing) is that without insurance private doctors may refuse patients, but with emergency rooms bound to treat all, that many use ER improperly simply because they can.

Alan
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That is the problem…the can use the ER improperly! All the hospitals in our area have clinics that acter to the poor or those that do not have insurance…why not use these facilities instead of clogging the ER with cases of ingrown townails and other non-emergency ailments??
 
thanks for allyour replies,was just curious as to how your system works
 
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