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  • Desperate Patients - Man stole pal's identity to pay for bypass surgery

    Identity theft has reached a new plateau.  How does one feel about a story like this, as he needed the surgery to save his life and he felt there was no other alternative.  What he did was not right by any shape or form, but again, when threatened with death, desperate people do desperate things...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 08-28-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Hospital, Surgery, healthcare, medical, Medicaid, identity theft, Fraud, Heart Surgery
  • Ancient Principle Fuels Modern Heart Device

    The procedure is not yet available in the US, but clinical trials are in place.  Her doctors told her that she had congestive heart failure and that she was too high a risk and that surgery was not an option. " The Impella is threaded through the widest artery in the leg, known as the femoral...
    Posted to The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck on 08-25-2008
    Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, Cardiology, Heart Disease, clinical trials, Heart Surgery
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