It was the call that Lance Hansen, gravely ill with liver disease, had been waiting weeks for, and it came just before midnight in late April. A liver was available for him. He got up to get dressed for the three-hour drive to San Francisco for the transplant surgery.And then he panicked."Within
It was the call that Lance Hansen, gravely ill with liver disease, had been waiting weeks for, and it came just before midnight in late April. A liver was available for him. He got up to get dressed for the three-hour drive to San Francisco for the transplant surgery.“Within five minutes after hanging up, he started hyperventilating,” his wife, Carmen, said. “He kept saying: ‘I’m going to get COVID, and then I’m going to die. And if I die, I want my family there.
In a review of its claim and pre-authorization data for seven acute conditions, including heart attacks, appendicitis and aortic aneurysms, insurance company Cigna Corp. found declines ranging from 11% for acute coronary syndromes to 35% for atrial fibrillation in the rate of hospitalizations over a recent two-month period.
Dr. Suzanne George, an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, has patients on oral chemotherapy regimens who refuse to come in for lab work. Cancer patients on chemotherapy are at particularly high risk of becoming severely ill if they contract the coronavirus. But one of the common safety measures — banning visitors, even close family members — is a huge reason for patients’ fear and apprehension.
VanWagner, who is on the transplant team at Northwestern, said Rivera had turned down the liver despite being told the donor had tested negative for COVID-19. Still, the hospital could not guarantee that the liver was free of the coronavirus, although VanWagner and others said the chances that a liver donor who had tested negative would transmit the virus to a recipient were exceedingly low.“His window is closing,” she said. “You can only go so long before you run out of chances.
“Our goal is to spend almost all our marketing dollars over the next year around the safety of our institution,” said Dr. Stephen Klasko, chief executive of Jefferson Health, a 14-hospital system based in Philadelphia.For the past 21 years, Rob Russo, 45, has been living with a rare type of gastrointestinal cancer that has spread to his liver. For years, he made regular trips from his home in New York City to Dana-Farber in Boston.
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