Having worked in this genre for decades, I have an understanding of how the inside works. The levels of compromise and incompetency for the sake of convenience and profit at times is frightening. To make things worse, staff and providers often go along to get along and never speak up about what they see. I always tell others that need to go in hospital, to have an advocate camped out in the hospital room to monitor everything. If needed, have several that can take shifts. Question everything. READ everything you sign and have hard copy of what you signed. We have to be our own advocates.
Medical institutions are a profit making business and the bottom line matters. Decisions can be made to benefit the bottom line and not the patient. There is very little altruism here. Human beings are simply commodities.
I have taken some massive heat over the years for being a patient advocate and I have lost jobs over taking a stand on behalf of my patient against much larger interests. The entire Covid profit making scam is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg that exists within the system. And just to add some clarity, publicly funded institutions have their own set of problems that do not necessarily equate to better patient outcomes. Private institutions are profit driven, while public institutions are process driven. I have worked both sides of this system.
A healthy bit of skepticism never hurts. Be well and safe fren.
Having worked in this genre for decades, I have an understanding of how the inside works. The levels of compromise and incompetency for the sake of convenience and profit at times is frightening. To make things worse, staff and providers often go along to get along and never speak up about what they see. I always tell others that need to go in hospital, to have an advocate camped out in the hospital room to monitor everything. If needed, have several that can take shifts. Question everything. READ everything you sign and have hard copy of what you signed. We have to be our own advocates.
Medical institutions are a profit making business and the bottom line matters. Decisions can be made to benefit the bottom line and not the patient. There is very little altruism here. Human beings are simply commodities.
I have taken some massive heat over the years for being a patient advocate and I have lost jobs over taking a stand on behalf of my patient against much larger interests. The entire Covid profit making scam is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg that exists within the system. And just to add some clarity, publicly funded institutions have their own set of problems that do not necessarily equate to better patient outcomes. Private institutions are profit driven, while public institutions are process driven. I have worked both sides of this system.
A healthy bit of skepticism never hurts. Be well and safe fren.