Re: What do they do?

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2000 - 10:54:31 MST

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Jeff Davis wrote:

> You're a neurosurgeon. A person comes in with an injury of the sort
> described below. ... Clinical trials for humans are two years off.
>
> What do you do?

You do *exactly* what the insurance company dictates: put a bandaid
on it and sent the paralyzed blighter home in an electric wheelchair. {8-[
The doctors are powerless until someone actually sues and wins against
an HMO for *not* performing such a procedure. spike

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