appendicitis

You'll see much fewer cases of appendicitis amongst those who don't eat the overly-rich western diet.

And they can easily make sure costs are low by firing employees with regular appendicitis!

My father had appendicitis before the age of 25, despite a relatively simple diet.

I personally witnessed their incompetence when I walked to their Arlington ER 10 years ago with appendicitis symptoms.

It goes way beyond just fixing your appendicitis (which, by the way, that is one massive bill), but should (theoretically) still fix that problem.

Always wondered what would happen if an astronaut got appendicitis?

For hurt, substitute in appendicitis, broken arm, heart attack, severe burn, poisoning from some kind of leak (ammonia?).

Died suddenly of appendicitis at the age of 44.

Did you have $20,000 socked away to cover appendicitis?

(If you've already had appendicitis, insert any of 100 other relatively common highly tractable medical emergencies you haven't had yet).

I had appendicitis in Nov but caught it before it burst.

About five years ago my brother had appendicitis and, since he'd decided not to buy insurance (which he could have easily afforded), the $17K came out of his hide.

Other patients are stoic and wouldn't really call that raging appendicitis "pain", more like "discomfort".

"I'm not diagnosing you with appendicitis or a kidney stone or a XXX, but that's what's going on."

Imagine a patient with appendicitis who goes to a doctor, and the doctor just hands over a prescription for pain medication and says "no worries, this will make you feel better right away".

Do you think we don't say "this person has appendicitis/other given condition", and act that way, and do you think it makes a great deal of difference to the patient I speak to?

Appendicitis goes into the $50,000 range.