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Woman Finally Gets Her Skull Back

What a bizarre headline, no?

Turns out, that is just exactly what happened.

This girl gets in a car wreck, then needs surgery to reduce bleeding on her brain, so almost half of her skull is removed.

But, sometime between the time it is removed and the time when it needs to be put back on, someone (most likely a bean counter) pipes up and says, “Hey! Who’s paying for this, anyway.”

Apparently, the answer was, “Holy crap. I don’t know! We’d better hold up until we get this figured out.”

So, this young lady’s skull gets put in a freezer for four months.

Four months!

Then, they finally decided to go ahead and put her skull back on, since:

[...]she suffered extreme pain just bending down and would wake up in the morning to find that her brain had shifted to one side during the night.

Now, there are a myriad of arguments that can be made about health insurance, etc., but what bothers me the most is this: Why didn’t the doctor just say, “You know what? We need to get this done, so let’s just sort it all out later?”

OK, I do know the answer to that. The lawyers would have eaten him alive.

As the kids on South Park might say, “Dude. That’s pretty *bleep*ed up, right there.”