Bill Swan on the nightmarish summer that began after a CT scan reveals a lesion on his lung, and how that all that misery could so easily have been prevented. “Fixing this would not involve any significant cost, no intensive study, no major change in administration. Fixing this is as simple as treating the patient with the most basic of consideration—respect.”
From Bill Swan’s excellent Faces of Pharmacare website we feature the story of a Nova Scotia woman faced with a $3500 monthly bill for the life saving medications she needs. In her case a solution was found in the end, but “I succeeded because I was determined, persistent and angry enough to take action. I knew how to explain my case. I knew how to write convincing letters. I’d been a bureaucrat and a consultant. Many people are too sick to advocate together with their doctors; many people are intimidated by the system; they know it is not fair but feel powerless to influence decisions.”