Bad Emergency Room Story

The wife was in so much unusual abdominal pain one day that we went to the Emergency Room at Froedert Hospital.  They spoke to her for five minutes, drew some blood, and gave her a puke bucket.  We were told to sit in the wating room.  Two and one-half hours later we left without ever being seen or treated.  We went to Waukesha memorial Hospital Emergency Room, where she was seen within ten minutes, examined an treated.  Ok, so that could have been better.

Imagine my suprise when we got a bill for over $1K from Froedert Hospital!  My insurance company paid the lion's share, and we had a small copay.  I contacted my insurance company to report the fraud, and they were unconcerned.  I then began a four month back-and-forth with Froedert Hospital over their fraudlent charges.  I wrote letters, I made telephone calls, I explained myself patiently.

Two weeks ago, I was sent to my second supervisor on a telephone call.  She listened patiently, told me she would examine the records, and promised to call me the next business day.  Today (two weeks later) she called my home number at 3:55pm, spoke to my wife, offered a 20% reduction on their fraudlent charges, and explained that she had to go because her shift ended at 4:00pm.

Holy Crap what thievery!!

They are getting one more chance at a refund and a letter of apology to my wife and I, then its on to the Attorney General's office and the media.

Boy Multiplication

If I wanted to do something, I might do it myself.  If I needed help, or better ideas, I would ask someone to work with me.  This is how it usually works with adults,or even teen girls, or even hamsters.  With teenage boys, a special phenomena occurs.  The more teenage boys in a group, the stupider they become.  This can be expressed in the formula:

gIQ = lbIQ x -N

gIQ is group IQ
lbIQ is the IQ of the lowest IQ of any of the boys in the group
N is the number of boys in the group

Thus one boy with an IQ of 90 has a gIQ = 90
Three boys with IQ's of 90, 85, and 75 have a gIQ = -225


I have observed this with our own boy, who alone manages to smoke and be lazy - in a group they smoke, be lazy, drink, break furniture, throw up and attempt to hide the evidence in plain sight - when caught they say "What?"

Point proven