Couldn’t afford it after the Pharma coupon on their site expired.
So I found it on the internet from gray market providers.
Pharmacy = $900 per month
Gray Market site = $100 per month
Down 100+ pounds now.
This shit NEEDS to be covered by insurance. It’s a life changer. Sickening that it’s like $1k in the USA and like $5 in the actual developed world.
The original lyric was:
“Some of those that hold office are the same that burn crosses.”
Not a movie but Netflix miniseries - MAID
Non-spoiler summary: Single mother fleeing abusive relationship with nothing but $18 in her pocket.
That show gave me anxiety every episode and it was fantastic.
In the US, doctors are obligated to treat patients in immediate need of care (in a professional setting - an emergency department, for example - not just walking down a street.) They can’t discriminate against patients for non-clinically relevant reasons (race, gender identity, etc.) They CAN refuse care if they lack specific skills or the patient is “abusive.”
HOWEVER, these are ethical obligations (I pulled that info from the American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics.)
You asked about legal obligations.
I am not well versed in doctors’ legal duty of care - laws are not consistent across national and local jurisdictions.
You also used the word “aid” so I am approaching it from an emergency context.
In a professional setting, there are limited reasons a medical professional could refuse emergency care where the immediate outcome is death. Perhaps someone with more legal expertise could direct you - I’m only familiar with ethical constraints.
His name is Jay Jacobs. He is a cancer and needs to be removed.
“She doesn’t even have the concept of a plan!”
(I’ve had gastric bypass - 2001- and then a revision - 2021. Surgery never worked for me.)
I went from semaglutide to tirzepatide and now retatrutide.
I took retatrutide since last year. I’m currently on a maintenance dose to prevent regaining what I’ve lost since I’ve hit my goal.
ATH: 377 SW: 298 CW: 195 GW: 200
I thank the gods every day that I found these things and have access to them.
13 federal circuits.
There should be 13 Supreme Court justices.
Each justice could be responsible as “executive” of their circuit.
12 associate justices for the 1st through 12th circuit.
The chief justice is assigned the Federal Appeals Circuit.
It makes way too much sense.
You can’t change the number of justices on the Supreme Court.
Except that you can.
And they did. Eight times.
1789 - six justices
1801 - reduced to five justices
1802 - restored to six justices
1807 - seven justices
1836 - nine justices
1863 - ten justices
1866 - nine justices
1867 - eight justices
1869 - nine justices
M is for mostly. They mostly come at night. Mostly.
We call the white Monsters “Anne Coulters.”
STORY TIME:
I have one of the most expensive cats on earth.
I recently paid ~$15,000 to have a pacemaker installed in my 4 year old shelter cat.
She started getting very clumsy and I noticed her getting dazed more and more often. Once I brought her to the vet, I learned that she had a congenital heart condition and her heart was literally stopping for seconds on end causing her to pass out (literally dying in front of me for seconds at a time.)
I couldn’t let her die. I adopted her during covid and could not have survived the pandemic without her.
I am blessed in that I could afford something like that and it wasn’t even a question of whether to get her the procedure. I would have gone bankrupt if I had to choose.
I hate that people will have to make that choice (it’s not even a choice as most people could never afford that) so after my pet insurance reimbursed me back ~$13,000, I donated it to the hospital as a grant specifically to be used towards any feline cardiac procedures that couldn’t be afforded.
Every morning we sit together while I have my coffee and I thank the universe for letting her be there with me in that moment.