Healthcare for Celebrities

[medsurgnurse, RN]

Is it just me or is there a double standard for celebrity healthcare? Just in the past few weeks several celebrities have HOSPITALIZED for the flu. Now I know the flu can be serious, but really, in the young otherwise healthy person is it neccesary to hopitalize? I think the flu is just a cover story sometimes. I can't remember all the names now, but Micheal Jackson, Lindsey Lohan, another actress, were hospitalized for the flu. And Whitney Houstan was hospitalized in Paris for food poisoning she developed on the plane; as soon as the plane landed she was rushed to the hospital. And all of these MADE THE NEWS. Also, Hilary Clinton was in the hospital for the flu in February.