How NYU’s Emergency Room Favors the Rich
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How NYU’s Emergency Room Favors the Rich
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#2Paywall-free "Gift Article" link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/health/nyu-langone-emerge...
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#3If that is how it is, then be public about it. Don't pretend to treat everyone equally. Pretending otherwise is the most despicable issue regarding this.
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#4These hospital systems aren’t even just hospitals anymore. They are gobbling up medical practices at a high rate.
While their tax status is non profit, de facto they are profit maximizing partnerships with the profits distributed as excess comp to their executive-partner-owners.
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#6I used to live down the block from this hospital and used it frequently, and I feel like the article has it backwards. In one of the examples they cite, the person given favorable treatment raised $3 billion for the hospital - that does not seem unreasonable, to show a little gratitude to not just a major benefactor, but the person whose name is on the literal hospital.
Another example is a sitting senator, who has been the target of threats in the past - probably shouldn’t be sitting out in the waiting area.
Much more concerning to me are the reports in the back half of the article where they shuffled off poor patients to Bellevue, which is already stretched thin and ends up taking the brunt of homeless and indigent ER admissions.
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#7How many people do you think the hospital can treat with the $3 billion (yes, with a B) that Langone helped raise? Or even just the $200M he personally donated?
Which is better for the individual people who might (and I stress "might," since the hospital denies it) have to wait slightly longer on a day he needs care? To wait slightly longer there, or to wait slightly longer because they had to route to a different hospital that's struggling to deal with the demand?
If you remove Langone from the situation, you're not simply left with "everybody gets seen one person sooner." That's a small-picture view. You're left with "many of these people just can't be seen here at all."
I'm not saying people have to like the rich. I'm just saying if I'm next in line after him at NYU Langone hospital, I'm glad I have that hospital to go to, even if that bumps me to 2nd priority in the room.
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#8It shouldn’t be a surprise that a hospital would seek to help its donors, but the fact it was put on probation by an accreditor of residencies speaks for itself. NYU seems to have directly interfered with doctors’ professional independence to prioritize non-urgent donor care.
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#9I used to live down the block from this hospital and used it frequently, and I feel like the article has it backwards. In one of the examples they cite, the person given favorable treatment raised $3 billion for the hospital - that does not seem unreasonable, to show a little gratitude to not just a major benefactor, but the person whose name is on the literal hospital. Another example is a sitting senator, who has b…
If it was in a non-medical setting I would agree but in medicine a patient's financial contribution or political status should not be a factor of consideration. even if they have been threatened they can hire protection after all and the government can add extra protection as needed. All patients should be safe and secure equally, women who are threatened by an abusive spouse or people injured/targeted by gang shootings don't get that treatment now do they? Even the hospital owner should be treated with the same ethical and procedural considerations.
Every doctor and nurse is seriously educated on this.
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#10NYT became a shitty opinion outlet with just a good name.