Does this mean my part time job is over?

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Going back to the Health Care topic.
I really had a bad time with this foot splinter.

No X-ray found it and an 'exploratory surgery' wasn't a guarantee to fix the problem. I forgot about it and this past year it started to bother me as a sharp pain in my foot.

My toe went numb and I had pain all the way up my leg to my hip. When I was asleep I would stretch my legs until I got cramps and had to elevate both legs to get comfortable. I'd press the sole of my foot on the wall so it would not hurt.

Because a doc had seen the wound and done the x-ray and dressing on it I didn't think it was the splinter.

I got a callus on top of the callus and the skin on the bottom of my foot began to swell, then cracked. I was trying to see what was bugging me and ended up taking a piece of wood that was probably 1/8 of an inch out of the split in the skin.

I probably could have kept going back to the doctor over and over again. But if he didn't find anything the first time out with an X-ray, what good would a surgery done?

Was it wise to go thru the pain? Nope.

Could I have kept bugging the doc to do something about it?
Probably.

The fact that I have seen countless people who go into the doc's office for no reason at all really galls me.

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I have sat in the ER rooms when I had the flu and thought I was going to die.

Then some kid would come into the room with a sucking chest wound and head trauma.

It was then I learned I wasn't going to die.

While the topic of HCR is pretty timely, we all have to also look at the way we use the system and who really needs the care provided.