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A stripper falling off the pole can cause broken bones,possibly a broken neck,concussion,and many other serious injuries.

My Dr was ordering the CAT scan to be safe. But any head trauma that is still exhibiting symptoms after a day or two warrants further testing. If Natasha Richardson had testing done..its likely she'd be alive now.



So, you couldn't think of any of the examples that you had in mind about how you die several weeks later? Are you claiming your headache was caused by a broken neck a week after your injury?

Natasha Richardson died several hours after her head injury from bleeding into her head that would have required immediate neurosurgery within several hours to save her life, not several weeks later. Even if she had gotten a CT scan, that would not have fixed her problem. If she could not have gotten to an operating room with a competent neurosurgeon, she would have died anyway (even if she had a CT scan). I thought you said you weren't afraid of that? Why do you keep bringing this up?

You are just parroting what you heard some talking head on TV claim. No, proper testing would NOT have saved her life. Proper treatment would have saved her life. A CT scan does not cure bleeding or anything else. It would not have helped her to get a CT scan if she did not get proper treatment.

You say your doctor was "being safe", but you have no clue what it was he was "being safe" from. If he had documented appropriate findings on his history and physical exam, Humana would have allowed a CT scan. The reason you didn't get a CT scan was because your doctor did not document any reason why you needed one. I suspect that the reason why your doctor did not document any reason why you needed a CT scan was because you didn't have a reason to get a CT scan.

I believe he was not trying to "be safe". He was trying to placate you. You don't know why you wanted one except you thought it would make you feel better to know "my CT or MRI scan looked OK".

Your example is why the United States has the most expensive health care in the world and only rank about 37th when it comes to outcomes. You, Cameron Keyes, are part of the problem. It isn't doctors doing tonsillectomies as somebody else claimed, it is strippers demanding CT scans and MRI scans a week after slipping off a pole because they have a headache (and the lazy doctor who orders an unnecessary test to placate their complaining, demanding patient).

By the way, they were right, weren't they? That is, you didn't have anything seriously wrong did you? You didn't die like Natasha Richardson, did you?

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