Opinion: A doctor without health insurance? What could go wrong?
"It's probably nothing," I told myself. I'm a physician, so I should know. That was a mistake.
“It’s probably nothing.” That’s what I said to myself not long ago when I started feeling lousy. I should know, since I’m a physician. But I learned the hard way that those “nothings” can get serious fast — and without health insurance, the bill can be astronomical.
Just after Thanksgiving last year, it occurred to me that I was more tired than usual. I chalked it up to working a long string of shifts in the emergency department at the
