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shaker1.1 · Post by **shaker1.1** » Tue May 29, 2007 9:13 pm

Hellooooo from the Great White North. Was so thrilled to go to the )'( last year. No longer a virgin. Hopefully going this year.(have tics). My questions to all you crazies. Are there any people out there suffering from Crohn's /Colitis that have a group/camp. I'm probably going by myself this year and would like to hook up. Share stories, interests, toilet paper.
Can you feel the pain. Aw I hate lineups.

shaker1.1

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unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Tue May 29, 2007 9:40 pm

shaker1.1 wrote: Hellooooo from the Great White North. Was so thrilled to go to the )'( last year. No longer a virgin. Hopefully going this year.(have tics). My questions to all you crazies. Are there any people out there suffering from Crohn's /Colitis that have a group/camp. I'm probably going by myself this year and would like to hook up. Share stories, interests, toilet paper.
Can you feel the pain. Aw I hate lineups.

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I have never heard of a support group for Crohn's on the playa.. Do't let that stop you.. Bring everything you will need just in case.. BM has a good medical staff.. Have you had some of the bad gut removed??

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:17 am

Bring everything you will need just in case.. BM has a good medical staff.. Have you had some of the bad gut removed??

I think the above statement could be mis-interpreted by some to suggest that that BM has doctors available to adequately treat non-emergency situations.

Burningman has good emergency room physicians that deal with trauma and life-threatening issues. In urgent situations they're also available to consult but my experience has been that they're not inclined to treat anything except the most routine non-emergencies given the less than ideal conditions.

The OP should get in touch with his doctor and let him know where, when and for how long s/he's going away. Also inform them of the conditions and the fact that the nearest hospital is almost a hundred miles away - sometimes by a $15,000 helicopter ride.

skygod · Post by **skygod** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:20 am

Holy Cow! $15K? Is that to Reno?

Badger · Post by **Badger** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:10 am

My understanding is that's the approximate cost give or take a few grand depending on what sort of treatment you receive during the flight.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:12 pm

Badger wrote:My understanding is that's the approximate cost give or take a few grand depending on what sort of treatment you receive during the flight.

Thanks for the correction of my earlyer post.. I would think a heart run would have a bill.. It's a good thing to have Fire-Met and Med-Air Insurence..

Post by **actiongrl** » Wed May 30, 2007 2:27 pm

Yep. One friend that was transported paid $12K, not a penny covered by her insurance.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Wed May 30, 2007 5:05 pm

$15,000 sounds about right. When I was employed at the U.W. Hospital in Madison, WI we were shown the MedFlight helicopter as part of orientation, and were told the approximate cost/mile patients were billed. I don't recall the exact amount (and it probably varies depending upon the helicopter, crew, etc.), but about $15,000 for 100 miles sounds around what the amount would be given ten years of inflation. (The moral to the story? I dunno... Health Care in the United States of America is really, really expensive, and not paid for by the government...? Is that the moral? Or moral?

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B.

Isotopia · Post by **Isotopia** » Wed May 30, 2007 6:33 pm

Is that the moral? Or moral?

I think morass is the word that fits the health care situation in this country.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:05 pm

Isotopia wrote:
Is that the moral? Or moral?
I think morass is the word that fits the health care situation in this country.

Ah, yes! That was the word I was looking for!

Thanks!

B.

Archantael · Post by **Archantael** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:27 pm

Come one, come all to Burning Man! Where for the price of a tank of gas and a $280 ticket you can get "community subsidized" (cough, cough) free medical care! That's right, the same REMSA docs who would charge you out the nose to see you in Reno will see you for free once you're inside the gate. Why pay outlandish ER and hospital bills? Think GREEN, save some GREEN. Go visit the REMSA tent at BRC and have your most pressing medical issues taken care of for free! (/sarcasm)

Since REMSA's out there it makes the language on the back of the ticket obsolete. Yeah, I know...part of the BLM permit requirements is to have basic medical services which while nice.... their presence sure puts a nice sized silver stake in that old "radical self reliance" concept. (/rant)

Fair disclosure: I've used the medical tent for dehydration advice. I was prepared to pay for it and I didn't want to go until campmates basically dragged me there. So yeah, this is a pot meet kettle post. I'm just wondering if the LLC has measures in place to prevent this service from being abused, and how much it's adding to the ever increasing cost of running the event.

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