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Originally Posted by BigElCat
Then there's the old country doctors.
Payment could have been a meal.
My great-grandmother died, because she didn't want to spend $2K on a medical express train to an operating room.
The family had $2K in 1920, but that was all they had. She saved the money for her children.
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That's incredibly tragic decision she had to make. We really need a version of National Health where you don't have to crawl out on to the ice because you got ill. Damn...