Your Healthcare Stories

I recently took a bad fall and had multiple serious injuries. Since one of them was a spine injury, I was placed in the neurology wing of the hospital. I also had a broken elbow, ribs & pelvis, which were extremely painful, but because so many of the patients in my wing had nerve damage as a result of their injuries, I didn’t have a doctor that paid attention to my pain management needs. I had been assigned other doctors, but they were in other areas of the large and spread-out hospital and there didn’t seem to be good communication among departments.

It took me a while to find a gynecologist that I liked and trusted, but now that I’m not under my parent’s plan anymore, she isn’t covered. I don’t want to have to find someone again and build a relationship with them when I was perfectly happy with the doctor I had.

I was concerned that I had a cancerous mole and the wait to get into the dermatologist covered under my plan was four months. Luckily, I was okay… but what if it had turned out to be cancerous and those months had been critical.

I ran out of my birth control prescription and my doctor said that she couldn’t call in a new one until I had had my yearly exam. I had moved to a different state in the meantime and would not be coming home for a few weeks. On the one hand, I appreciated her professionalism, but on the other hand, does she want to pay to raise my unwanted child??

I was admitted into the emergency room unconscious and given several VERY expensive tests. Luckily my insurance paid for them, but when the insurance statement sent me a statement of the services they had paid for it scared me. I didn’t know what some of them were or what they were for and I didn’t know who to ask- or what I would have done if they hadn’t paid..