He went in for a colonoscopy. The bill was $19,000.

[snot]

4. Our system is so f--ked, & seems to be getting worse all the time.

Earlier this week, I was told I had to have an appointment and come in for a shot of the type that's injected into fat. I've had to administer other such shots to myself more times than I can count – it's easy to do – but this time they won't let me just pick the medicine up and administer it, presumably because then they wouldn't be able to charge a fee for administering it.

This a.m. I went for a medical appointment only to be told (after much back-and-forth) that it had been cancelled but (as they admitted) no one had notified me. The appointment was with an instructor, not a doctor who might have been called away to help with an emergency.

Trivial examples compared to the many other, much worse horror stories that pretty much anyone middle-aged or above can tell.