Bill proves as painful as injury after visit to PIMC | Letters

Published 4:15 pm Friday, February 27, 2015

Grab the skin just in front of the knuckle of your middle finger and pull it gently upward.

This is the exact skin area which our son accidentally pierced with a nail using a nail gun at the current Homes for Islanders neighborhood. My husband immediately took our son to PIMC (Peace Island Medical Center).

It was obvious that the nail did not hit a bone nor muscle, nor tendon nor ligament.

Two hours later, they had removed the nail and our son was left with a bill for ER of $603, for emergency room of $670, for X-rays and drugs and pharmacy and vaccine, all totaling $1,774. Outrageous.

Naoni Zervas/San Juan Island