Where Can Patients Find Hospitals That Offer HAI Pump Surgery?

Michael FitzGerald, CEO of Submittable, told Crazy Wisdom he started haipump.com while he was being treated for cancer. The site is a way for patients to find hospitals that implant a hepatic artery infusion pump, the HAI pump he travels to New York once a month to have serviced. He said it is not offered more widely because a hospital needs a surgeon who can implant it, and he had to leave Missouri to get the procedure. Medicine, he said, prefers a pill, because a drug scales and an operation does not. A teacher or someone working at a tire store would not have his freedom to make that trip. He called the barrier mostly insurance and bureaucracy.