I spent 6 days in the hospital with Pancreatitus last month in Arkansas. I am happy to survive the Arkansas public health system. Around day 3 i started self prescribing my IV drip because they were flooding me with so much fluid, I was starting to look like the Michelin man. On day 5, i started dictating how much morphine to get because that stuff was making me bat shit crazy, and I rejected the blood thinner. I know what is good for me, and if I die, I would rather it be due to something I did rather than have some quack kill me and say oops....
on the plus side, I did loose