![]() Six weeks ago, I fell while trimming a tree. I went into collections and it took years to pay that one off. I still have distinct black scars people think they’re tattoos. They cauterized my facial wounds rather than stitch me up, and then dumped me on the sidewalk with amnesia. I was taken to the ER and treated like crap because I had no insurance. I felt like my appearance had something to do with it.” ~ Jay Snider “I was once denied pain meds after a fall off a 10-foot porch by the same doc who gave my pretty female friend pain meds after getting two stitches in her finger. For the first time, people share their stories: We rely on doctors to first do no harm–to safeguard our health–but profiling patients often leads to improper medical care, and distrust of physicians and the health care system, with potential lifelong consequences. Like racial profiling by police, patient profiling by physicians is more common than you think. Profiling disproportionately impacts patients with chronic pain, mental illness, the uninsured, and patients of color. Patient profiling is the practice of regarding particular patients as more likely to have certain behaviors or illnesses based on their appearance, race, gender, financial status, or other observable characteristics. Vile.Ever felt misjudged by a doctor? Or treated unfairly by a clinic or hospital? You may be a victim of patient profiling. “You should call someone who gives a s-t.” Jeez, Smurf. With nowhere to go and no one to whom she could turn, Julia fell in with a druggie crowd and, by the end of the episode, was so out of it that an acquaintance was phoning Smurf and asking whether she should call an ambulance. Smurf then paid a visit to Baz to ensure that he wouldn’t put a roof over Julia’s head. (Was there any other way to read that scene?)ĪND IN OUR FLASHBACKS… | After discovering that Julia had been ripping her off, Smurf violently threw her daughter out of the house, keeping her car, her clothes - everything but her drugs, which the Mother of the Year said she’d need when she was reduced to turning tricks. Now, he’d have permanent control of the funds, which, at the end of the hour, he transferred into his own account. Then, he pressured her to change a page of the trust document that she’d already notarized - the page that gave him temporary control over his uncles’ money. First, he dropped the L word on Penny to wrap her more tightly around his little finger. There was just one hitch in the plan to spring Pope: J, it seemed, was double-crossing his uncles. ![]()
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