Hospital Bull#&%!$

“I was scheduled for hip surgery on 12/15/03. On 12/1/03 & again on 12/08/03 I gave a unit of blood that was sent to the hospital for my surgery should I need any while there. My surgery was cancelled & rescheduled for Jan. 04. That date has been cancelled & no new date has been set. Both cancellations were done by the hospital. They knew before I gave blood that my surgery was not going to happen but they didn't tell me. What's my beef you ask? I got a bill in the mail for $608 for blood storage! For blood storage!!! When they knew I wouldn't be able to have surgery. I wore out 2 poor ladies on the phone before I wore out their supervisor. He basically said too bad, too sad. We stored your blood & you owe us money. Am I being unreasonable? Sorry for my rant but it's hard to choke someone over the phone.”

“Call a local TV station......”

“Sue.”

“I think you're gettin' screwed without getting a kiss first. I'd be pissed over that one.”

“Letter to the local paper's editorial page.... ?”

“Pay up, you whiner.”

“Well the problem about the local paper is I'm in Arkansas & the hospital is in Maryland. I have a call into the Doc. We'll find out how much weight he carries around there.”

“Good Luck!”

“Yankee bastards.”

“Chili's stoking the fire. Next thing you know I'll be like M. Douglas in that Falling Down movie. Or whatever the hell it was called.”

“Chili's the lawyer, so I reserve the right to be overruled, but alot of times, a letter from a lawyer simply threatening legal action is enough to get them off your back. To an entity like a hospital, $608 means a lot less than it does to someone like you or me.”

“Arky, it is the hospitals problem b/c the canceled on you. Tell them to kiss you a$$!”

“Well, I am a southern lawyer.

I would tell the Yankee bastards to come on down to Arkansas and sue me.

I would tell them that after my bada$$ lawyer got through dragging the up and down the Courthouse stairs, they would limp back to the #&%!$ing north with a damn nosebleed.


That's what I would tell them.”

“Talk to you doctor and tell him. If it is at a hospital he practices at a lot he could help. I got an outrageous bill from a therapy center one time I told the doc and the bill went away.

FYI: The shelf life of blood is 28 days.”

“Remind them that just one of their plate glass windows in the lobby costs alot more than that!”

“Send them a box of bandaids or a small bottle of aspirin. That should more than cover their bill, based upon what they charge patients for the same,”