Does anybody know what this might be all about? I just received a phone call

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madmom  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jan-13-09 12:01 PM
Original message
Does anybody know what this might be all about? I just received a phone call 
from our local hospital insurance/billing office. I have to go in tomorrow for an MRI on my shoulder and they called to "pre-register" me. After all the pertinent questions, she ask me what religion I was for "the record". WTF? Why is that need to know information for an MRI, it's not like I'm going in for brain surgery or something, besides I really can't see the reason for it at all, no matter what I'm going in for. IF I were religious, I would leave it up to my next of kin/emergency contact to do whatever had to be done, surely NOT the freaking insurance company! Am I missing something here?

jmg257  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jan-13-09 12:02 PM
Response to Original message
1. Last rites? Hope not!!

 

conscious evolution  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jan-13-09 12:33 PM
Response to Reply #1
18. I could see hospitals
 billing for that.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit.

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jan-13-09 12:05 PM
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5. They always ask
 It's just a formality they ask of everyone. It's not meant to be intrusive.

People who are religious are set up for visits from the house chaplain if they are in for something serious.

It's an acknowledgment of the spiritual needs many people have along with their physical needs.

enlightenment  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jan-13-09 01:26 PM
Response to Reply #5
24. Unfortunately, it is intrusive.
 If a religious person wants visits from the hospital chaplain, they can ask for them - although in my experience with in-patient stays, the hospital chaplains have never been loath to pop 'round to pester, anyway.

And why on EARTH would someone need religious counseling for an MRI or even a mammogram? It's not like they're getting the results on the spot (and if someone is so freaked at the mere idea of these non-invasive procedures, asking them a question like that will just make it worse). These are not in-patient procedures; most are not even done in hospitals anymore. This really sounds like the hospitals/clinics are collecting statistics - and that begs the question 'why'?

It is intrusive, regardless of what it's 'meant' to be, and frankly I am sick to death of the excuse that because something is 'meant' to be a good thing it should be seen as such even if the recipient is appalled by it.

You just selfpwned Liberalism. Kudos.

[franksolich]

Oh my.

The primitives must be short on things to be indignant about today.

[Zeus]

I know it's been pointed out numerous times about the Dummies. Those folks must lay awake all night thinking of things to be upset/offended about.

[Bondai]

Looks like they are catching on to our medical prescreening program.....when they get to the camps they must be physically able to do the work they are assigned.

[DumbAss Tanker]

The guilty flee when no man pursueth.

 

[LC EFA]

It's amusing the amount of rage that any discussion of religion causes to the atheist anti-theist crowd.

You'd think if they were proud of their belief (or lack there of) they'd just say "non-religious" and move on.

[Chris_]

It's amusing the amount of rage that any discussion of religion causes to the atheist anti-theist crowd.

Excellent edit -- many "atheists" in fact hate people who have spiritual beliefs.  I would go as far as to say they hate God -- making them anything BUT A-Theists.

[BlueStateSaint]

Excellent edit -- many "atheists" in fact hate people who have spiritual beliefs.  I would go as far as to say they hate God -- making them anything BUT A-Theists.

They're just like militant homos--they demand "tolerance" yet are intolerant of anyone who isn't a total subscriber to their beliefs.