Intimately so. But seemingly, you are not, as evidenced below.

Federal statutes require that emergency care be rendered independent of ability to pay. That means everyone gets an exam and/or tests without pre-determining their ability to pay for them. The penalties for inquiring about payment capabilities prior to rendering an exam and/or performing necessary tests to determine their status are onerous and virtually no one in my field would do so.

The fact is, ER access is easy and that is how it should be. And I couldn't give a tinker's damn about insurance verification, benefits, deductibles, arbitration clauses, or documents signed "under penalty of perjury."

I have no idea what a "semi-intentionally designed waiting game" means.

As to your notion that someone else in a worse condition needs more immediate treatment, we agree. After all, the ER is a place where, "Worse come, first served."

Judging by his name, astrologer.

And a damn good one. Sorry to say, I'm seeing face cupping, a lasso and a fat girl in your future.

****. Is the girl Latino?

Somlier in new orleans

Close. She's Portugese, from Fatima.

I got fired for helping a customer drink a bottle of '61 Petrus. I lined up an astrology job on the bayou beforehand 'cause I saw that comin'. Was definitely worth it.

Hey doctor you don't know anything about hospitals LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLL

Sherri Papini screamed so hard for help she was 'coughing up blood,' her husband says in interview

golfnut seems to have slithered off.....shocking.

'Well maybe people aren’t stopping because I have a chain that looks like I broke out of prison,'

That doesn't make her seem wonderful. It makes here seem like an idiot.

Shasta county is a weird place. Honestly, anything is possible up there. Case in point: same lady faked her own kidnapping a few years back.

Maybe she learned if you want people to believe you are kidnapped you have to go one step further and abuse yourself severely.

Or maybe she actually was abducted and tortured like she says.

I always assumed Leo doc was a lion tamer.

This new information comes via Keith Panini's first on-camera interview since Sherri turned up, which will be on ABC on 20/20. This comes, of course, after his first written statement since her re-appearance, a Good Morning America exclusive!, in which he said

So this guy hates publicity about as much as Kanye. But being awful and a media whore doesn't distinguish him from most people, I guess, and it sure doesn't guarantee that the whole thing is fabricated.

Where would y'all put the odds that the message contains the word "TRUMP"?

I read there is a more detailed description now. One has thin eyebrows and one has thick eyebrows. One has pierced ears.

Doesn't say if they were wearing shoes.

It must be hard to provide a solid perp description when you feel every Latina looks/is the same

Honestly him saying they weren't big into social media before the abduction is not inconsistent with doing TV interviews now. It's a national story and half of America thinks his wife is lying, so it prob makes sense to do some news shows.

That being said I will admit this hubby comes across as really annoying every time he opens his mouth.

How can u kidnap someone that hot for 3 weeks and not have any sexual relations with her? I mean even just some girl on girl shower action would seem necessary

story doesn't hold up.

Been busy.

What do you want me to say?

I think there may be inconsistencies in the story. When I now read coughing up blood, I personally don't believe she would be treated and released so quickly. Overnight observational status would seem to be the bare minimum in such a traumatic event, physically and mentally. As well as document the injuries which will be used at a potential trial of the assailants.

golfnut,

Leo Doc is a highly-skilled legitimate MD. Multiple years of education, graduate school, residency, continuing medical education, and probably has to retake boards every 10 years. He can treat anything from a minor cut to a gunshot wound. At 2am after having worked 14 consecutive hours. He works more for the same pay and now has to enter everything into a eletronic medical record system (mostly likely EPIC). He gets little appreciation for the work he does and is sometimes viewed as a cost center vs. a human that truly heals other humans. The majority who don't want to pay $1 themselves for the work he does. He is also being judged on ridiculous, manipulated statistical metrics and population management data created by self-serving administrators.

That is my guess.

In gn's defense, I didn't read his posts as attempting to dick measure with doc as much as is being implied by some.

looking at it from the other angle (the story is not a level), if there are Mexican sex slave kidnapping rings going on I have a couple of questions.

What is the going rate for a gringa palomina?

How can anything be more horrible?

This is why everyone should carry a gun.

Comparatively, I for one feel better about the odds of my wife, daughter and female loved ones taking their chances that there is a Mexican sex slave ring kidnapping randoms and then letting them go after three weeks. Than what?

Oh than trusting the gun slingin' judgment of the type of people who do the math on this situation and think this warrants walking around armed all the time.

Jfc, I mean even if this story is just as they say it's not a ****ing sex slavery ring. And I even if it were, American women are much more likely to be killed by their husbands or raped by someone they know than kidnapped at all, never mind sold into slavery.

Get a grip with your fantasies.

I didn't get that impression, either. I just thought he was wrong in saying that someone with her described injuries would not be released in the aforementioned timeframe after being evaluated and treated in an ER.

I also thought it absurd to think any ER would take several hours to perform the paperwork associated with a patient's visit.

Why not? Assuming her blood counts were OK and a CT scan of her chest didn't show anything significant, why wouldn't a thirty-something woman be released?

Admitting her to the hospital in the absence of injuries requiring inpatient treatment isn't good medical care. I mean, if her story is true, you'd think she'd want to get back to her family after a three week ordeal.

If the ER doc didn't document her injuries before she left the department, he's doing it wrong.

I only do that part-time to supplement my meager wage garnered from curing everything from heartbreak to the crack o' dawn.