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A 32-year-old took the needle into his hands when he tired of the wait at Sundsvall hospital in northern Sweden and sewed up the cut in his leg himself. The man was later reported to the police for his impromptu handiwork. "It took such a long time," the man told the local Sundsvall Tidning daily. The man incurred the deep cut when he sliced his leg on the sharp edge of a kitchen stove while he was renovating at home. "I first went to the health clinic, but it was closed. So I rang the medical help line and they...

Did you know about the new Medicaid laws? Well my husband and I just found out. We are being sewed by Medicaid for past medical bills Medicaid paid for, when our son was born three years ago. This came to us suddenly without warning. I had an emergency C section, and our son was in the neo natl. care unit for a week. So the sum of what they want back is over nine thousand dollars. So the new house we were planning on buying is out of the question. We don't mind paying back the money so much but...