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April 2016 | Free! ncmonthly.com Our 2016 Spring Merchandise Book is now available. March - May 2016 SPRING merchandise book pick up your FREE COPY Southtown Plaza: Store information984 S. Main, Colville • (509) 684-6505 STORE INFORMATIONOpen HERE. 7 days a week: Monday - Saturday 8 - 6 • Sunday 9 - 5 WWW.COLVILLEHARDWARE.DOITBEST.COM 2 | North Columbia Monthly | April 2016 3 Column x 11 ROP Ad What’s Inside 6 Life Matters PCA: No Patient Left Behind, by Dr. Barry Bacon, MD April 2016 8 Random Acts of Community Vol. 23 ~ Iss. 11 by Christine Wilson 9 North of the Border Publisher & Senior Editor Travels with Dellie, Part III, by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Gabriel Cruden 10 Boundaries Copyeditor Remembering Jono Esvelt, by Jack Nisbet Si Alexander 12 Monthly Muse Contributing Writers Laugh Your Way Through the Year, by Loren Cruden Sophia Aldous • Louanne Atherley 14 In Nature Dr. Barry Bacon • Loren Cruden Pine Siskens, by J. Foster Fanning Brenda Curkendall • J. 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This is a not- fice looking rather glum. Her story was not so A 50-year-old man with terrible mouth pain for-profit 501(c)3 organization whose mission terribly unusual. The difference was, I suppose, got as far as the clinic front desk but changed is to improve access to care for those without that she was my patient, and this was my terri- his mind because he feared the cost. He came insurance in northeastern Washington. With tory. She was in her early 20s, a new mom. Her into the emergency room the next day with a the help of some really fine people, including dark brown hair outlined her face in straight terrible complication called Ludwig’s angina, Ozzie Wilkinson, Jean Conger, Charlie Schuer- crisp borders. couldn’t open his jaw, needed to be flown to man, Ron Rehn, Mike Hansen and others, we “Doctor Bacon,” she began, “I’m really sorry, Spokane for emergency surgery. Needless to put together bylaws and formed a board, and but I can’t come and see you anymore. I devel- say, he didn’t save any money by staying home. since that time we have been able to help hun- oped diabetes since I last saw you, and I didn’t On another day, a 60-year-old man having a dreds of people access healthcare who other- have insurance. I have tried to get insurance, heart attack and heart failure was in tears be- wise would have struggled alone. It’s not a free but because I have this diagnosis, I couldn’t get cause he was told he needed to go to the hospi- program, but it makes care affordable. We ne- it for a while. Now that I have insurance, my di- tal. He couldn’t afford it. gotiate on behalf of those without insurance agnosis of diabetes isn’t covered because there A 55-year-old man bleeding from the rec- for a discount on charges, and then TCCHF is a nine-month waiting period for preexisting tum declined to have a scope due to the cost. pays 75% of the remaining bill. The patient is conditions.” I could see that she was not doing He died a few months later of colon cancer. responsible for 25%. The patient gets care, the well. She had lost considerable weight since I There were others. provider gets paid, and the community shares last saw her. She had developed some nerve We conducted community meetings to in the load. symptoms suggesting that her disease was al- understand the plight of those without insur- The most common cause of bankruptcy in ready affecting other organ systems. ance. People described to us the agony they this country, reportedly, is healthcare costs. “Look,” I said, “I’ll see you for nothing. I just experience in making difficult decisions about TCCHF is trying to diminish the destruc- need you to come in. I’ll write off the cost of my themselves and their children when they have tive power of sickness. TCCHF helps with visits. Just don’t neglect your care. Diabetes can no insurance. Almost all told us that, in the lab costs, specialty care, medical procedures, cause so many complications. You really need previous year, they had made a decision not x-rays, MRIs, CTs and ultrasounds. TCCHF help with this. Please don’t neglect to come in. to see a doctor for a medical problem they felt initiated GetFitColville and helped us lose over We can help you.” they really needed help with because they had 7,000 pounds as a community. TCCHF was the She thanked me. “But it’s not just the cost of no insurance. Half of those with children said sponsoring agency for the narcotics addiction your visits. Even if you write off the office visits, they had made the same decision for a child in jail intervention bringing treatment to people I need to get labs and medicines, testing sup- the past year.