Doctor's orders: Go to Mexico

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This is unbelievable, I'm sure we'll see more of this as time goes on particularly in Arizona.

Doctor's orders: Go to Mexico
Patient says she was told to leave Isle hospital because she is an illegal immigrant
By HARVEY RICE
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Feb. 7, 2011, 4:52AM



GALVESTON — The crushing news came last month as Maria Sanchez was being prepared for surgery to remove a banana-size tumor along her spine that had crept between her vertebrae.

Unable to use her right hand because of the growing tumor, Sanchez, 24, had been at the University of Texas Medical Branch's John Sealy Hospital for six days when, she said, a Spanish-speaking doctor told her she had to leave the hospital immediately because she was an illegal immigrant. The doctor said she should have surgery in Mexico, according to Sanchez.

Sanchez's hospital records state that she was discharged because she was "an undocumented pt (patient) with no insurance." Records show that Sanchez underwent at least one medical procedure and surgery was scheduled before she was dismissed without warning Jan. 12.
After being discharged, Sanchez called her husband, Luis Aguillon, a legal U.S. resident, who arrived at the hospital to find his wife and his mother sitting on her bed crying.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7416070.html

[xchrom]

1. ...

:grr:

[a la izquierda]

2. k&r

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Bring me your tired, your poor, but NOT your sick

[Vinca]

4. On the other hand, if Americans are forced to go to Mexico for medical care . . .

but, really, what an inhumane, fucked up system for anyone who is ill.