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[aid] => mick
[title] => Medical Rape
[time] => 2007-04-10 17:15:42
[hometext] => As a health professional (currently a stay at home Mom), I am outraged with our country's medical care system.
[bodytext] => Editor's Note: I confess to being the "My lady" of the poem, other stanzas came from experiences I dealt with while working as a nurse. I loved my job, but hated the money/bureucratic bullcrap. The cost of insurance in this country is outrageous. Surgical procedures even more so.  Ms B's got a chronic cough shes been dealing with Quit smoking a few years back Frothy rust colored sputum plagues her in the morns Keeps wheezing every time she takes a few steps Up her stairs and back Needs a chest x-ray for she fears the worst Cancer took her mother Yeah, it took her first My lady has been bleeding heavy every menstrual month Depleting her life blood so quickly feeling weaker all the while Headaches and depression besiege her on her pale face you can tell Needs a uterine ablation Doctor needs the money up front or she can make monthly payments to get that uterus all fixed up Man downstairs got a sore on his foot Won't never seem to heal Step on something outside at first ..didn't seem a big deal Refuses to see a quack doctor can't afford their damn bill He's scared and doesn't know what to do wound is reddened and smells Same thing going on all over this darn world People Humans in need of medical care but just don't have the money Folks don't have no insurance no way to pay the outrageous doctor bills So they survive barely keepin' alive while their doctors live in wealth up in the hills Society ain't right Something needs to be done People suffering needlessly in a country full of money Best hospitals and doctors but who the heck can tell common man with no insurance lives in his own hell March 2007 Laura Horner [comments] => 4 [counter] => 277 [topic] => 31 [informant] => deadheadpoet [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => StoryPoetry )
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