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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and graphic designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
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$3100 and some changeJust got my bill for my stay in the hospital (all three hours of it) and it's a bit over $3100. That included rental of the space, all the various drugs I got while I was there, rental of the recovery room (and hour of time for $300 -- and the would've kept me longer if I wasn't like "I'm fine, get me the hell out of here."), etc... . That didn't include the anesthesiologist (which I'm still waiting on a bill for) or the surgeon (which I don't have to pay for). I still have to pay off my MRI (about $1000), and I know the anesthesiologist won't be cheap (probably a $1000). So I still have $5000 of medical bills or so (could be worse -- if I had to pay for the surgeon and post-surgery care at the specialist's office, it'd be over $10,000). Donations still being accepted :-). Hopefully I'll get back some money in taxes this year (and I should), so that'll kill off about 25% of it (crossing fingers as I got a good refund last year), and I'm playing the "transfer balances between zero interest credit cards" game to avoid paying interest on it so I won't be paying double in the long run. 1 TrackbackMiracles Can Happen from GDay Mate on 01/12/04 @ 03:32 AM:I found this story about a miracle via Utterly Boring. It is a miracle in both senses - a miracle that the lady survived and a miracle that we have the gifts and faculties to develop the required medical technology. While we are on Jake's site, he has ... (Read More) 2 CommentsKent said on 01/11/04 @ 01:32 AM:Don't mean to one-up you, but my bill @ Glendale Adventist hospital (in L.A.) for 3 days was $74,000. Pretty serious stuff, but I was with an actual doctor for no more than 2 hours. Oh, and the doctor's nurse told me not to bother to come back for anything until the bill was paid. So that's why I left America last summer. Living in Genoa, Italy, slowly learning the language. As long as you have a relationship with a doctor here hospitalization is covered by "the social contract" -- it's free. My doctor (a sweet, intelligent man) charges 100 euros a visit no matter how many tests are done and, on my two visits, spent a serious amount of time with me. Plus pills are even less expensive than in Canada. It's fucked, man. But I don't imagine I'll ever return. Jake Ortman said on 01/11/04 @ 09:53 AM: Ugh...I'm moving to Italy -- if I can convince the wife and kids to come :-) Post a comment |
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