A hospitalist friend told me this story about a homeless smoker with an iPad and cell phone in tow demanding the hospital give him his medication on discharge. I feel so bad for this guy. Where's the compassion? Where's the empathy? How is he going to treat his room air pneumonia as an outpatient if he can't even afford his doxycycline off the $4 Walmart drug list? He wants the hospital to give him his prescription. They say they can't. It's against hospital policy. It's just so unfair.
I'm thinking, maybe, just maybe, he could start an Occupy Homeless movement with a bunch of funny homeless signs and knock off two stones with one throw. Or he could just wait for ObamaCare to fix these unjust hardships.
