How twitter helped a technology consultant escape from an evil hospital
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How twitter helped a technology consultant escape from an evil hospital
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#2That is a harrowing story. If it's half true, the hospital really is evil.
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#3According to the author, the story is being used as fodder by both sides of the healthcare debate. All I can see is the perverse economic incentives on display.
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#4The story really doesn't involve Twitter much at all.
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#5The story really doesn't involve Twitter much at all.
But that's not true. It describes her as using Twitter throughout the ordeal. Most importantly, it was through Twitter that she met the ethical neurosurgeon who saved her.
Incidentally, her title references "social media" rather than Twitter, which I think is right; it's not hard to imagine, say, Facebook playing the same role. What's relevant is that she got word of her plight out to a network of people in a way that would be harder to do otherwise, and that feedback from this network led to a fundamentally different outcome than that experienced (I imagine) by most people with broken spines who are having unnecessary surgery and narcotics forced on them against their will.
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#6It never occurred to me that carrying high-level heath insurance would mark me as a candidate for unnecessary surgery.
Perhaps this is exactly why health care costs have gone up so dramatically. We have insurance, so the doctors take advantage of it -- needlessly. We very well could be spending a lot less money for the same amount of health care.
I think the solution to the health care problem is for someone to start saying NO, like in that other article on the front page now. No to more test, no to unnecessary treatments and surgeries and non-generic drugs.
Say no!
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#7That is a harrowing story. If it's half true, the hospital really is evil.
Doubt the doctors are the evil ones. If they're using an outdated procedure it means they haven't been kept up to date on the latest treatment protocols. The hospital beaurocrats trying to keep their accredation and earn big bucks, those are the evail ones.
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#8That is a harrowing story. If it's half true, the hospital really is evil.
Doubt the doctors are the evil ones. If they're using an outdated procedure it means they haven't been kept up to date on the latest treatment protocols. The hospital beaurocrats trying to keep their accredation and earn big bucks, those are the evail ones.
They are evil because they were thinking of themselves before the patient and using lies to intimidate her into agreeing with them -- when they were wrong.
That's evil. Unfortunately, it's a story repeated across the nation every day.
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#9It never occurred to me that carrying high-level heath insurance would mark me as a candidate for unnecessary surgery. Perhaps this is exactly why health care costs have gone up so dramatically. We have insurance, so the doctors take advantage of it -- needlessly. We very well could be spending a lot less money for the same amount of health care. I think the solution to the health care problem is for someone to start…
We very well could be spending a lot less money for the same amount of health care.
... not to mention greater actual health.
When health care was the leading issue in Canada a few years ago and every politician was going around promising to expand it, I remember wondering if I was the only one thinking we need less of it, not more.
It might be helpful if we used a more accurate label than "health care" (perhaps "disease industry").
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#10And the ultimate lesson of all of this: If your friend jumps off a bridge, are you going to jump off of a bridge too?