No, it was me. My Dad paid for it back in 1958.
Like I said, I need to ask him about it. I have always heard it was around $500 for everything. Just peeked my memory when I read the other Post about the Ether.
I still remember the big red “Operating Rooms” sign with a big red arrow that I saw when they were wheeling me down the hallway on the Gurney.
I was reading at age four and the memory of seeing that sign is as vivid today as it ever was, just like the smell of the Ether, the Doctors looking down on me and the bright Surgical Light above them.
I was reading at age four and the memory of seeing that sign is as vivid today as it ever was, just like the smell of the Ether, the Doctors looking down on me and the bright Surgical Light above them.
Hopefully, the procedure worked and left you as good as new, whatever it was.
You can probably add two or three zeros to the $500 tab to bring it up to 2014. But who knows what it would have been after your parents' 2014 plan would have processed it?
That's the big problem with 2014 medicine. Pricing is set by bureaucracy, not market forces. When my doc recommended that echocardiogram, I didn't think twice, even though I felt fine. If I'd been quoted the official price of $2400, I'd have laughed and left.