This past February, when physician Dr. Lauren Hughes headed to her Denver clinic, she was shocked to end up dealing with her own emergency — and the hospital bill that came with it.
Another driver T-boned her Subaru. She was raced to the nearest emergency department at Platte Valley Medical Center.
Hughes agreed to surgery for a broken ankle and deep cut to her knee. She would have advised the same for any of her patients; it would be routine…