So, my local hospital is a chop-shop pharma factory that has taken loved ones from me over and over again with their neglect, incompetence, and downright malicious actions.
Everything they've ever done for us has only put us further in debt and turned one physical ailment into two.
I doubt I'm alone, but our family has significantly bad "luck" when it comes to the medical industry.
Now, here's the deal. I know some "secrets" about this hospital. Secrets, like, why the original blueprints were two stories taller, and why no one is allowed in the basement, secrets.
Enough for an honest building inspector to condemn it, and possibly even too bad for a dishonest building inspector to accept a bribe, no matter how large.
We're talking, the plumbing system being out of alignment by at least a foot, and sheering off flooding the basement problems with the massive building...
But, here's the rough of it; my town is so helplessly corrupt that no one cares anymore; like the end scene in Soylent Green where the entire congregation is not only unsurprised that soylent green is people, but they are beyond caring.
It's so damn corrupt that they actually couldn't bribe a land inspector to install a park next to the waterfront because the toxic waste in the soil was such that no trees or plants would grow there, effectively risking distressing the populous when they notice squirrels without hair and extra limbs running around if they did put a park there. They instead installed two garish concrete trees to distract from the inability for real trees to live more than a year and then paved over nearly three acres of topsoil and then restricted parking there so no one can park during big downtown shindigs.
Anyway... I know a way to expose the dirty laundry of the hospital; the secrets in the basement and skeletons in the closet, so to speak. I can jump on an existing movement that exists against new city zoning and bridge the gap as to why the city board is making sweeping and seemingly idiotic mistakes when it comes to city planning. The entire city literally revolves around a fraudulent scheme involving the hospital by which they ultimately declare a state of emergency and get federal money to pay for a new hospital, while the city board owns all the construction and services and can charge a premium on everything. Yeah, I'm not even kidding here, it's a full Rorschach-level fraud scheme.
But in getting the hospital closed down, I will have shut down the only hospital for miles. Any good they do actually do would cease, and people would be panicking to find a place to prescribe their Big Pharma slave medication so they don't keel off from withdrawal symptoms.
It's a conundrum I've been grappling with for a while, even before they took my mother from me. Not only would I be risking my own life to get the word out, as I'm certain it is more than enough for them to send hitmen after me for, but I'd also risk the lives of those still dependent on the allopathic cult headquarters that is that monstrous eyesore in order to survive.
On top of that, I might end up playing into their scheme because they planned for the hospital to have an "expiration date." It's hard to know if I'd be doing any thing positive at all, since the damage is essentially already done.
So, what would you do?
You see, that's the problem. All the lawyers in this town are working for the hospital. They all fear the weight of it.
My only chance to do something is to make such a great stink such they cannot bury it and then hide in the fart gas cloud.
I know how to make a stink, but I don't know if it will be big enough. The majority of people in my town are retirement age, since all the young have left due to the lack of jobs and corruption. Being so old, they don't give a damn. I've had a few I've talked to say straight to my face "I'll be dead soon anyway, so why should I care?"
If I do something, it's gotta be nameless and loud. If they tie any one person to it, they will crucify that person and blame everything on them, whether it makes sense or not. The dumb dumbs around me will lap it up like they have for the last 60 years.
I know I'm complaining, but I'm not in a typical situation, if there even was one. The only avenue for disclosure would be to push the already crumbling infrastructure over the edge such that it hits the average dude here in the gut.
Again, I have an idea what to do, but it is most definitely wouldn't be viewed "within the law" when the media can spin it any which way they please.
Imagine in the Wizard of Oz, when they go to pull the curtain back, the curtain rod is so rusted that the entire building collapses if you peel back the curtain too quickly. Not just me or the hospital heads will be stuck in the rubble. They'd blame me for touching the curtain, but in reality it is their antics that resulted in the rusted pipe and paying off others that got us here.
Get a lawyer outside the fold. And take a page from our amazing President. Make the plan, and before you spring it bait them another direction. Make the focus of the first push something else to get them rushing to deal with that damage. Then keep escalating. Involve local, state and federal agencies and news organizations. Join all the local facebook pages prior through multiple accounts, carpet bomb the info everywhere when you spring the trap. Stick to the truth and facts, and give them hell
Medical has me concerned here as well. Our state has done pretty well on most of these latest issues except medical. My gut tells me it leads straight to leadership. I hope I'm mistaken in that. Our two local hospitals are a joke.