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About eighteen months ago I had a cough I couldn't shake. Doc ordered a chest x-ray which I got that same afternoon. The next day he called and told me that they had found a mass and recommended a biopsy; he called the hospital and set it up, I got it done two days later. By the end of the week I'd met with the oncologist, and he called the surgeon. Two weeks later I had the surgery to remove a portion of my lung.
The same week I got my diagnosis a friend who had similar symptoms was still waiting for her chest x-ray. By the time I got out of the hospital following the surgery, her doctors were still arguing with her insurance carrier. She eventually had the necessary surgery, in a hospital in another town, with doctors she didn't know. And by then she was an emotional wreck, most of that caused by the wrangling with the insurance company.
I have Medicare.
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