Deb went to the hospital multiple times when having a heart attack and was repeatedly turned away.
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I went back to the hospital 6 times, twice a day for 6 days in a row. At one point there was one doctor that said to me ‘Oh Deb you’re feeling this way because you’re fat.’ Anyway, he sent me home. So by then, I had said to them that I’m no longer gonna come back here. I’m going to my vet. He’s far more kinder and way more knowledgeable. And he will help me, and I left there with every little bit of dignity a person having a massive heart attack.
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