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Marian · 07-03-2009, 07:59 PM

Pizzagirl, that would ordinarily be a good idea, but he lives in on-campus housing for graduate students, so his landlord is the university. Therefore, the landlord is not an additional resource. However, he might be able to find help (for a price, if necessary) through the university -- either through the health center or, as frazzled1 suggested, through the dean of students' office.

Let's expand the question here. Has anyone here every known ANY person who needed a procedure that requires sedation -- whether it was a colonoscopy, dental surgery, or anything else -- but who was living alone in a place where they did not know many people? It doesn't have to have been a student. Perhaps it was you! How do people deal with this situation? Are there commercial services that can help? My son has some money. He could pay for such a service if necessary. But it would have to be something other than a taxi. Medical facilities do not allow taxi drivers to sign patients out after procedures (or maybe it's the taxi companies who don't allow it -- but in any case, I know it is not permitted. I've had enough procedures of my own to be aware of that.)

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Marian Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 3,333	Pizzagirl, that would ordinarily be a good idea, but he lives in on-campus housing for graduate students, so his landlord is the university. Therefore, the landlord is not an additional resource. However, he might be able to find help (for a price, if necessary) through the university -- either through the health center or, as frazzled1 suggested, through the dean of students' office. Let's expand the question here. Has anyone here every known ANY person who needed a procedure that requires sedation -- whether it was a colonoscopy, dental surgery, or anything else -- but who was living alone in a place where they did not know many people? It doesn't have to have been a student. Perhaps it was you! How do people deal with this situation? Are there commercial services that can help? My son has some money. He could pay for such a service if necessary. But it would have to be something other than a taxi. Medical facilities do not allow taxi drivers to sign patients out after procedures (or maybe it's the taxi companies who don't allow it -- but in any case, I know it is not permitted. I've had enough procedures of my own to be aware of that.) Last edited by Marian; 07-03-2009 at 08:09 PM.
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