Disappointed by Healthcare.

Now that I've really experienced both sides of the healthcare coin, I can honestly say there's nothing great about it.

Granted, countless lives have been saved by advances in medical technology and continual enrollment of crazy, brave people into medical school, but the encounter I had last week as an inpatient was far from satisfactory.

I'm actually considering a lawsuit. People have sued others and won for less.

First and foremost unwise medical decision: to give the OK for my discharge with an elevated white blood cell count and elevated liver enzymes.

Second and closely related medical decision: discharging me without even bothering to draw my blood again to see if the labwork had gone back to normal.

Anyone with at least an ounce of medical knowledge knows that you should not discharge someone from the hospital if labwork is abnormal...Particularly when there is an infection present resulting from an "-itis" of any kind... Most commonly, appendicitis, or in my case, cholecystitis. An infection could cause sepsis and ultimately lead to death.

Now, the attacks of pain are occurring more frequently than ever (pretty much every other day for a few hours), and the surgeon says he can't see me until the end of the month...Now I have to wait three weeks without knowing WHEN I'll get the pain, which although cruel in itself, also means I may end up missing more work and school. No work = no money for my bills (which already happened), and No school= I don't get to graduate this semester if I miss too much class.

This is all corporate bullshit. It's not about patient welfare. It's not about caring and compassion as medicine should be. It's just about making the most money. I'm just a social security number to them.

Thank GOD I got out of the medical field. Who cares about the money when you work in a jungle of apathetic assholes anyway.