I was hosting some friends who were on vacation. They live across the US. Long story short, one of them had to go to the emergency room and was subsequently diagnosed with cancer, very far from home.
He said OK, I don't live anywhere near here. You will just transfer all this info to my "home" doctor, right? The doctor seeing him said "not necessarily."
Assuming I'm reading this article right, thank fucking god no one else will have to go through that.
I fell ill far from home and while the care was subpar I did get to take along a CD with my xrays on it. Nobody seemed to know what to do with it and I ended up getting a redundant set of xrays within days of the first set. No weird file formats, they were full-resolution and exactly what the xray tech and docs were looking at previously.
He said OK, I don't live anywhere near here. You will just transfer all this info to my "home" doctor, right? The doctor seeing him said "not necessarily."
Assuming I'm reading this article right, thank fucking god no one else will have to go through that.