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IN EXACTLY four weeks to the day of multi-
ple visits to the Intensive Care Unit of Lions
Gate Hospital, I heard money mentioned two
times.

Once was in reference to
the use of a fancy bed that
quietly tilts itself from side
to side when the patient is in
too fragile a condition to be
manually adjusted.

That it cost $100 a day
was just an exchange be-
tween the nurses, it was not
directed at me, whose hus-_
band lay in it.

The other occasion con-
cerned special hosiery for

“the newly ambulatory.
These will be on your
bill,’”’ the nurse said, ‘“‘but
you can recover the cost
from the medical plan.’’

At’s quite a while since

“we'd anticipated a bill for
hospital care. When ‘it did

THE VINTAGE YEARS

‘come, just after Christmas
1990, it was 2 tulu.

It came from a small
private hospital in a small
town in Southern Califor-
nia.

At breakfast, on
Christmas day, in a charm-
ing golf resort, the golfer
had suffered a shocking
seizure which necessitated an
overnight stay in said hos-
pital, twenty-odd miles
away, and the introduction
into his upper chest of a
pacemaker.

He was released the next
day, but the hospital re-
quired ‘that he be available
for a final checkup after the
New Year, after which we
would be free to hit the
road north.

_ We had had, of course, to
make a substantial deposit,
tike $1,000, before he was

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