First and foremost, make sure you have travel insurance when you want to take a cruise just for the medical costs. They'll make you pay them upfront but you should be able to get some reimbursement afterwards.
What brought about this lovely statement was a defibrillator fire in my grand uncle that frightened him. Granted, after it freaked him out, it fired twice in rapid succession. He went down to medical where we learned his electrolytes were out of balance which was already my and my grandmother's guest (pharmacist and rn respectively) and they wanted to fly him out that evening and make my grand aunt find her own way back to him.
After talking it over, it was decided to wait until our port today to take him to the hospital and have his defib double checked and whatnot. Medical watched him for 36 hours roughly despite paperwork to check him AMA so they wouldn't put him on a plane by himself, and they charged 25,000 to play babysitter.
Grandmother signed papers to take care of an agreed 2,000 in additional early disembark fees, but the service desk shoved all of their charges onto our room number because my aunt had prepaid cash to dip into with no credit card. When my grandmother protested that she never agreed to pay medical, we were subtley threatened about having difficulty when it came time to disembark. (This is a whole other matter that my stateside family intends to tackle tomorrow... anyways)
I'm definitely never stepping foot on one of these hellships again. I wasn't really enthused with my experience overall, but I'm more than soured now.
Gotta love emergency healthcare!
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