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Mama Told Me Not to Come: A Day in the Corridors of Medical Bureaucracy

By jeffinalabama, Section Diaries
Posted on Tue Aug 02, 2011 at 06:11:10 PM EST
Tags: Cancer, unemployment, health insurance (all tags)

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Bureaucracy exists in every field, from government to medicine to education. Yet medicine will be at least the point of the spear in this diary.

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