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Misadventurous Melissa

Everyday is an adventure, or misadventure as the case may be. It is the latter that makes for the best stories, inspiring the name of my blog. I'm a nurse and an attorney (and way too silly sometimes). I am retired now. WELCOME to my blog! This is a work of fiction inspired by true events. The patients I refer to are a patchwork quilt of various patient's problems mixed together. If you think you recognize someone, you are wrong. These people do not really exist.

Monday, January 09, 2006

Don't Feed The Chimps

Before he became a patient, back when he was still just a fool, he decided to stick his hand into a cage to feed the chimps. We saw him after surgery to put his finger back together with hardware. Naturally, he had no insurance.

Upon discharge, he was given a prescription for antibiotics and he said that he wanted the insurance to pay for it. What insurance? We paid for his entire hospitalization, but that's not good enough. He wanted us to buy his medications to take home with him too. Ungrateful fool.


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5 Comments:

At 1/09/2006 03:42:00 AM, Blogger Michelle said...

I'm surprised the hospital would actually treat him without insurance. Damn fool, who would put their fingers in a monkey cage?
Rolling my eyes!

 
At 1/09/2006 11:41:00 AM, Blogger Melissa said...

By law we can't turn people away. If they have no insurance and no money, we're stuck with the bill.

 
At 1/09/2006 01:20:00 PM, Blogger Running2Ks said...

They make "stupid signs" for things like that :) What a fool.

 
At 1/09/2006 05:25:00 PM, Blogger dkgoodman said...

Have you heard about the bad dog food? Just wanted to make sure your pups are okay.

 
At 1/09/2006 10:49:00 PM, Blogger Melissa said...

R2ks, I'm not sure that he could read English, he couldn't speak it, so a sign would be wasted on him. :)

Dave, I did hear about it, but we're not affected by it. Thanks for asking.

 

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