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Cake day: August 27th, 2023

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  • As he sat in a hospital bed, attached to an IV and wearing a neck brace, Whitten said, doctors told him that because he had suffered a traumatic injury, they had to send him by ambulance to the city’s only trauma center, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

    After a short ambulance ride, Whitten said, emergency room doctors checked him out, told him he had already received appropriate treatment, and released him.

    Then the bill came.

    $12,872.99 for a 6-mile ambulance ride between hospitals: a $11,670.11 base rate, $737.16 for mileage, $314.45 for EKG monitoring, and $151.27 for “infection control.”









  • I do have my own business, and I do work from where I want. If I do not need to physically be at work I work from home, or somewhere else.

    If someone is able to work from home I see not reason to force them to come into the office except to micromanage them.

    During the height of Covid and months past that all of the reps that I deal with for ordering for my business were work from home. They were much more friendly and hospitable while working from home. I could tell when they were forced back into the office as their morale dropped and dealing with them became miserable again.