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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry, OP. This happens regularly. My friend with lung cancer and a supposedly great insurance has had problems after problems.

My father is in France and while insurance is not a problem, space is. He has a serious autoimmune disease that needs stabilization, and he was scheduled for hospitalization on Tuesday. Tuesday morning they call him to cancel because the hospital is full and doesn't have a room for him. Wednesday morning the ambulance picks him up at 8am from his home. At 3pm, my mother visits the hospital and finds him still in his wheelchair waiting for a bloody room.

During his last hospitalization, his room was freezing because the window was broken and could not close. That wing of the hospital was built in 1684. You read that right. 17th century.

I'm not sure where you can go for medical care that is actually up to modern protocols and unencumbered by ancillary problems such as availability of care, insurance, cost, etc. It's so frustrating because our medical competency as a species is spectacular. Why can't we profit from it smoothly and easily?

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