Doctor Natera came by, I think around 9PM. He’d been delayed by a sudden inrush of patients, I think at the other clinic, where he treats those who can’t afford the services of “Star Medica.” He asked if I was in pain, and we had the “little pain?” conversation. He convinced me not to try [...]
I think it was around 11:30 or 11:45 at that point. The anesthesiologist explained that he was going to give me a tranquilizer (or did he say sedative? I can’t remember), then numb me from the waist down. I swallowed and nodded, mostly thinking at that moment of long, long needles inserted into me in [...]
As Reesa said, the couple who picked us up to drive us from El Paso to Jaurez were exceptionally nice. Up until then my arrangements with the medical group (medicaltourismco.com) had been very professional in feel; but this felt personal and family-like; in part because of the child car-chair in the back seat. I suppose [...]
Your first time or two visiting somewhere else, it’s hard to avoid comparing it to what you know at home. With some expected naysayers bleating about this medical venture of ours (usually quite racist in their tone), we’ve definitely been alert to perceiving the differences as well as the similarities to American culture in our [...]
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Too many roadtrips, too little sleep. Our reserves haven’t recharged so what we think will be 10 hours straight through divided between two reasonably well-rested drivers becomes a struggle for both to keep eyes open throughout the night. We pulled over at a couple of points last night to doze for a few minutes, [...]
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So, it all started with a standard STD check, when the doctor said, “How long have you had that hernia?” Never at a loss for words, I instantly shot back, “That what?” “Hernia,” he said, apparently unphased by my wit. “That’s a hernia.” This was, you understand, two days before I left for Vegas to [...]
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It fascinates me, in reading over the discussion of “a fundamental human right,” how often various people make arguments of the form, “If there is a fundamental right to freedom from pain, that means that any doctor has to stop whatever he’s doing and treat this person’s pain, right now.” Or, “That means every individual [...]
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Hello to morning readers as well as those reading this post later, at a more humane hour. Thanks again for visiting us at Words Words Words. I am thrilled at the response we have had already. The New York Times recently posted an article entitled Drug Approved. Is Disease Real? Seeing as how it is [...]