DUmmy proud2BlibKansan spins a rare subset of the common medical bouncy, a car-crash-ambulance bouncy:
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:02 PM
Original message
I witnessed a horrible accident today
I was on the interstate and a Toyota Camry in front of me suddenly spun out of control. I don't know if she was dodging something in the road or if another car crossed into her lane or what. She was less than a car length in front of me and all ofa sudden her car just started spinning. She hit the concrete railing on the side of the highway head on and then her car bounced around and the rear end hit the railing also.
Her air bags saved her life. I was blown away when she stepped out of her car. I thought for sure she would be dead. Both the front and the rear of her car were obliterated. I had pulled over right behind her and jumped out and ran over, expecting her to fall over at any minute. I got her to come back to my car and sit down and I called 911.
In the meantime a fireman who just happened to be passing by pulled over, took a look at the car and called for an ambulance. He came over to my car and told the woman to sit still and an ambulance was on its way. She said no she didn't want an ambulance, she wasn't hurt. And she started to walk away. The fireman said she might be hurt and she needed to sit still and wait for the ambulance.
Then I heard her ask "How much is this going to cost?"
So a woman totaled her car, miraculously walked away from the wreckage, and worries about paying for an ambulance.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6358132DUmmy WillYourVoteBCounted should not refuse the ambulance. He sounds like he's got a concussion:
WillYourVoteBCounted (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:04 PM
2. I would have refused the ambulence
since I don't have health insurance. But I guess my car ins might pay for it not sure.
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:24 PM
18. Some policies do, you have to read it
some policies also cover some of the care as well
Most DUmmies call 1-800-SAFE AUTO, which doesn't pay for anything.
ddeclue (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:08 PM
3. Damn you Ralph Nader, consumer activists, tort attorneys and do gooding gov't agencies!!!
How dare you force the American auto manufacturers to produce safer products that save lives in crashes.
How dare you stop the free market from producing enclosed golf carts like this one from India and passing them off as AUTOMOBILES:
Actually, DUmmy dddeclue, those enclosed golf carts are now called O-cars, they're made by Government Motors, and you have been
reported to the new snitch line.
MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:12 PM
5. This is ridiculous! Send this story to Rachal!
She could have internal injuries that she doesn't know about.
We need American faces put on TV to show that people are ignoring care at their own peril!
Yes. The carpetmuncher would be glad to do an internal examination.
Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:16 PM
8. In Canada, the question wouldn't even have been asked
That's one BIG difference between us.
Now the thread is hijacked by DUmmy nadinbrzezinski, a polack refugee who claims to have lived in Mexico until sneaking
into America, which she views as vastly inferior to either Poland or Mexico. One wonders why she made the move. In real life,
DUmmy nadinbrzezinski must be the most arrogant and obnoxious person on earth. Anyway, her hijack starts with a secondary bouncy:
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:16 PM
9. Not only in America, but it should not happen, period
You have no idea how many times patients tried to refuse care... now that I think about it, most were American.
I still remember a young man, he was rubbing his neck... he said that.
I told him, we are transporting to the Red Cross Hospital and you may have a hurt neck. (I did not exaggerate though when they took the X-Ray... he kept that Cervical Collar all the way to the US trauma center.)
His family and him were shocked when we never asked for insurance information. Now the American ambulance that took him to the Trauma center twenty hours later... you can bet your silly ass they asked.
But nobody asked a question about how you are going to pay for this? He went to the hospital, got initial care, and was stabilized until they covered all the legalities for medevac to US Trauma... and at no time did the words, insurance or payment cross the provider's lips.
When I did my ride alongs in San Diego that question was so close to the top, behind the orientation questions that I knew that was a problem. So yes, I was proud to work in a system that had its issues and trust me it did... but where the patient came first, as far as our resources allowed us. And sometimes our patients did cover some of their care, sometimes they didn't... so be it.
And I think I have told our nightmare story with blue cross\blue shield already... suffice it to say, not an approved facility, so forget it...
DUmmy HughMoran would risk his life to save a few hundred bucks, then inexplicably hates penny-counting idiots :
HughMoran (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:18 PM
12. I'd have asked the same thing
I've heard nightmare story after nightmare story about ambulance rides that ended up costing the person a bundle - the stress is more harmful than the accident IMO as I don't respond well to these mother****ing penny-counting idiots.
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:20 PM
15. And if you were my patient in Tijuana, at least when I was still doing this
money would have never entered the equation. If you were in Canada, again money would not enter the equation...
Sad that in the US it does.
Matt 6_5 (78 posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:19 PM
13. That happens hundreds of times every day. You just happened to be a witness.
If she wasn't injured (according to her own evaluation) she had every right to refuse the $500 ambulance ride.
The polack wetback DUmmy confirms my assessment of her arrogance and obnoxiousness:
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:21 PM
16. You do know how many folks who are TRULY ****ED UP
don't feel it?
By the way, 500 that is cheap dear. And that should not be an issue. Instead of applauding this, you should be horrified that it is happening.
DUmmy Matt 6_5 has had it with the polack wetback DUmmy:
Matt 6_5 (78 posts) Thu Aug-20-09 10:09 PM
39. Okay, I get it. Some people think they have the right to dictate medical treatment for those
who might not want it. And some people want to DENY it for the same goofy 'reasons'. Unless we have a cadre of omniscient caregivers who have the legal right to second-guess every single person, I say all that monday-mornng quarterbacking is unnecessary bullshit. Your mileage obviously varies. I wonder how much you'd like that kind of oversight when some do-gooder tells you that you can't get an abortion because you obviously aren't thinking straight.
The Blib DUmmy tries to regain control of her thread, and she really wants to sue someone:
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:36 PM
28. I walked away from a bad accident
and 5 years later I developed a sharp pain in my neck.
I have a pinched nerve caused by a whip lash injury I got in that accident. It is excrutiatingly painful and debilitating.
And I walked away from a car accident because I didn't think I was hurt.
The poback DUmmy fights back:
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:59 PM
32. I lifted a patient wrong. granted I had good reason, water was rising
up in that gully FAST.
That was over fifteen years ago. Next time I go to the doc I will bring it up. Yep you guessed it.
Every so often it is just ... painful.
By the way I didn't do any damage to the patient, my other fear, and the family was so damn grateful, they realized the kind of risks taken to get their SO out, alive. They insisted on buying dinner to me and my crew.
One of the few times people thanked us.
People don't realize how badly hurt they can be in an accident, or a bad lift that seems not to hurt.
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 09:50 PM
30. Do you honestly believe she would have worried about paying for an ambulance
if she had been in any other country?
The USA really sucks, doesn't it?
Now, in a stunning development, the dirty, smelly, homeless wino DUmmy bobbolink, who every day shits in someone else's
doorway, makes a surprise appearance, and destroys the Blib DUmmy's bouncy story:
bobbolink (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 10:07 PM
37. Can you explain why you were "less than a car length" behind her ON A FREEWAY?
You LIKE to live dangerously?
Please, don't drive on the same highways as those of us who actually drive sensibly!
A shocker! What type of car is driven by a dirty, smelly, homeless wino DUmmy who every day shits in someone else's doorway?
Is this a Cash For Clunkers success story?
DUmmy Mattnumbers calls a spade a spade, a dangerous act under our current president:
Matt 6_5 (78 posts) Thu Aug-20-09 10:17 PM
42. Bad driver? Or good liar.
Take your pick.
bobbolink (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-20-09 10:20 PM
43. Hmmmm.... I didn't know there were actually "good liars". Seems the GOP lying game is
become quite popular.
Silly me... I can't shake the habit of being honest.
What a dope I be.....
No response from the Blib DUmmy.
