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U.S. Consulate warns tourists to avoid Mexican hospital that operates like a
U.S. hospital

  [21]Mark Frauenfelder 7:54 am Mon Jan 31, 2022
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  Stay away from [22]St. Luke's Hospital in Cabo San Lucas, warns the
  U.S. Consulate. If you get treated there, you'll have the same kind of
  nightmarish experience you could expect from a hospital in the United
  States: "withholding care for payment, failing to provide itemized
  lists of charges, ordering unnecessary procedures, withholding  U.S.
  passports, obstructing medical evacuations, and refusing to discharge
  patients without payment."

  [23]The Los Angeles Times reports that Scott Lairson took his wife to
  St. Luke's after she contracted Covid in June. Lairson said the
  hospital demanded $50,000 or they would transfer his wife to a
  community hospital and he wouldn't be allowed to see her. He didn't
  have enough money and flew his wife home to Arizona, where she died.
  Lairson says that the hospital director Mario Trejo Becerril bullied
  and threatened him for cash:

    Lairson wrote that Mario Trejo Becerril, the hospital director, told
    him, "I want that deposit today, you go outside and call your
    family, whoever you need to call or don't come back to this
    hospital."

    "And if I ever hear about you recording conversations with your
    phone, you will never see your wife again!" Lairson recounted.

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