Heart attack design

Picture it: You're not feeling well, so you go to your doctor's office, where you're told you're having a heart attack. And just as you're on an ambulance gurney, the receptionist asks your for a $5 co-pay! This is what happened to 76-year-old Staten Island resident Barbara Antonelli last month.

Antonelli described her trip to the Staten Island Physician Practice and told the Staten Island Advance, "Stupid me, I gave her the five dollars. This was an emergency ... and they asked for a lousy $5. They could have billed me. I never thought they would have the audacity to ask." This while the grandmother had an oxygen mask over her mouth!

She pondered to WCBS 2, "[Is] a lousy $5 more important than a human being?"