This is not how it should be...
Just a quick review from my experience in Interna in July... While i was on duty in the ICCU ward during interna, there was this patient with tubes all over him and needed CPR twice in the afternoon to keep him alive till night, when he passed away around 11pm. When i saw the patient, he kept going into cardiac arrhythmia, since he got cardiac arrest hours before, and ECG showed posterior-inferior infect, it would mean that he needs a PCT immediately. Hence, i asked the doctor why the patient was still here in the ICCU ward but not in the Cath Lab for the operation. The answer was a bit distressing: he has no money. The doctor explained that the procedure would cost a lot, and it is covered by the certain insurance for the poor, but not by some other insurance. If he is rich, then carrying the procedure will have no problem.If he is very poor or near poor, and have that certain insurance, there will not be a problem as well. The problem here is that neither him nor his family hav