No Life Saving Here

What a bunch of fucking savages.

Leocanda is Massiel’s best friend. Leocanda’s mother has been sick for with some sort of lung disease for quite some time and in the last two months had taken a turn for the worse. Leocanda, as a bank employee, had full medical insurance not only for herself, but for her mother was covered as well. When her mother needed to be hospitalized everything was covered and she was able to go to a clinic. In the DR, hospitals are either very cheap or free. They are similar to butcher shops; dirty, no supplies, and poor medical care. Clinics on the other hand are quite costly, a little bit cleaner and a patient is generally attended by their own physician, so the care can be decent. It can be decent. It can also be really shitty. When I saw the lack of care exhibited by Massiel’s gynecologist, when we lost Pinky, I came up with a theory. I believe the doctors in the DR are in cahoots with the insurance companies to provide the least expensive care possible. I believe that the doctors have a working arrangement with the insurance companies to do everything within their powers to give the least costly medical care possible. I believe that the doctors are rewarded financially for not taking “heroic” measures. Rather than work and operate on a person’s leg, the doctor would rather just chop it off. I see more men with only one leg around Santiago in a year than I saw in New York in 50 years. Rather than work hard to save an unborn child our OB-GYN allowed Pinky to be stillborn. He did not try to do one fucking thing to save him. And now, after being in the hospital for two weeks Leocanda’s mother’s doctor just quit on her and sent her home to die. No “heroic” measures just dumped her in the fucking street and probably called her insurance company to find out how much he was getting.

What a bunch of fucking savages.