Throughout much of the country, EMTs are able to install pacemakers right at the scene . And there's more. We'll give you a new one. We'll predict the stroke before it occurs, give you a quadruple bypass, and you'll be back on the tennis court in six weeks. We'll hook you up to a machine that will take over the job.
Modern medicine can do many things.
Above all else, it can keep you alive . But that doesn't mean you'll never miss a day of work. Quite the contrary. In a study of more than 2,000 severely ill patients from five medical centers around the country, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that nearly a third of the families lost most of their life savings as a result of the patient's illness. These expenses include the unreimbursed costs of home care, health aides, special transportation, and related medical costs.