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Retireded
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medical problem
I am outside Ensenada and have a hernia causing I a severe problem. besy option? San Diego, Red cross, No cash for surgery. medicare in stttates.
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desertcpl
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dont see any other option,, get your self to San Diego ASAP
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DENNIS
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Get up to the states ASAP. If it's too late for that, get a ride to general hospital.
You're close to Red Cross so call them as well.
Don't just wait.......Do something.
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bajaguy
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San Diego
Sharp Medical Center.
805 north to Telegraph Canyon Road, east on Telegraph Canyon to Sharp.
Great hospital, service and staff
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Keri
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I second Sharp. The best. If you cant make it there go to Hospital Velmar in ensenada or Hospital del Carmen ensenda also,k
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Keri
I second Sharp. The best. If you cant make it there go to Hospital Velmar in ensenada or Hospital del Carmen ensenda also,k |
If Velmar is your choice, you better have lots of money and/or credit. It's the best hospital, but by far most expensive.
Del Carmen isn't inexpensive either.
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[Edited on 12-15-2012 by DENNIS]
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Alm
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The best Hernia center in North America is Shouldice hospital in Toronto, Canada. The cost is 3K-4K including semi-private room (they don't have
regular rooms), and all the tests (there are often some results missing in the papers from outside labs). They don't do anything but Hernia, for 50
years or so. They are separate from Canadian so called "free" medical system and make their own rules, though the place is popular and waiting list
can be few weeks long. Don't know if they make any exceptions for urgent cases, with most people Hernia repair isn't urgent. If it hurts right now or
very often, you should RUN to hospital, and run fast, before the blocked guts blow up.
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bajaguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Retireded
...........No cash for surgery. medicare in states....... |
He doesn't have any options to go to Velmar (unless it's a true emergency) or Canada. He needs a facility that will accept Medicare in the San Diego
area, hence Sharp.
[Edited on 12-15-2012 by bajaguy]
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David K
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Yup! Or any emergency room as (until the change) America has the best health care with no need to have money to get.
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bajaguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Yup! Or any emergency room |
Nope, not ANY emergency room.....you want the BEST emergency room.........and I don't think there are any closer than Sharp
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David K
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I am fond of Kaiser... and they too have emergency room on Zion. Sharp is great too.
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paranewbi
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Sharp Medical Center.
805 north to Telegraph Canyon Road, east on Telegraph Canyon to Sharp.
Great hospital, service and staff
I think you have to turn a right on Medical Center Dr. to get up the hill to Sharp....2nd or 3rd light after 805 on Telegraph?
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DENNIS
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Retirded.......This may be a stupid question, but are you a Veteran?
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EnsenadaDr
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Dennis, you are not thinking that this is Prorader? By the way, if this man had Seguro Popular, he could have had his surgery for free or very
minimal cost....
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bajaguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by paranewbi
Sharp Medical Center.
805 north to Telegraph Canyon Road, east on Telegraph Canyon to Sharp.
Great hospital, service and staff
I think you have to turn a right on Medical Center Dr. to get up the hill to Sharp....2nd or 3rd light after 805 on Telegraph?
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Yup, big sign on Telegraph Canyon Road, don't know the cross street, but you can't miss it.
[Edited on 12-15-2012 by bajaguy]
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bajaguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Dennis, you are not thinking that this is Prorader? |
Prorader is gone like a bad dream....skulked away in the middle of the night 
He started a bonfire and continued to throw gasoline on it till it was too hot for him.
[Edited on 12-15-2012 by bajaguy]
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J.P.
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I got to thinking about Velmar. So i checked some records I have. In Nov of 2006 my wife was in there she had a terminal illness when it became too
dificult to administer pain meds we checked her into Velmar. When it was determened she was terminal she wanted to come home to Baja. The 9 day stay
cost 2,500 dls us.
My co pay for the room in our us hospital would have been 300dls. a day alone. I highly recomend Velmar and thier Staff in my book they are top
notch.
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
| Quote: | Originally posted by Retireded
...........No cash for surgery. medicare in states....... |
He doesn't have any options to go to Velmar (unless it's a true emergency) or Canada. He needs a facility that will accept Medicare in the San Diego
area, hence Sharp.
[Edited on 12-15-2012 by bajaguy] |
My brother, who has no money but does have Medicare, went to Sharp Grossmont with a major brain hemorage. Drs said that a lot of younger guys (my
brother is 74) don't survive the required surgery, but he did and Medicare paid for everthing.
Bob Durrell
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Dennis, you are not thinking that this is Prorader? |
No. I'm sure he isn't.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
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WOW....He looks like a baseball.
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