Making the Best Choices for End-of-Life Care


His hospital bill: $1.2 million

This is not what someone paid for a home. Rather it is the medical bill businessman Danny Foo accumulated for the 14 months he was in a vegetative state.

The 48-year-old partner of Quayside Group died last Tuesday. He had collapsed and fallen into a coma in July last year, two weeks after he first sought treatment for an infected leg at a private hospital.

"Fortunately, Danny had the foresight to buy insurance early. We have only to pay 10 per cent of the bill, but $120,000 is still a pretty huge amount for the family to pay," Mr Foo's elder brother Steven, 49, told The New Paper.

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