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This is usually the kind of story that gets me all riled up, top-down corporate pressure puts bottom-rung workers between a rock and a hard place where they mak
by frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
This is usually the kind of story that gets me all riled up, top-down corporate pressure puts bottom-rung workers between a rock and a hard place where they make the wrong decision. That decision cost a life and then everyone blames the workers at the bottom and never changes the companies practice. Then you add in it's taking advantage of our screwed up health system to overcharge insurance and it's preying on the weak, this is my stuff.
However most of those deaths were suicides and there's only one that wasn't. It's tragic but if in the total life of this company they've only had one accident like this and it's not re-occurred and they cleared up any discrepancy with their workers about what sort of existing medical conditions they can handle then I have a harder time engaging my righteousness.
- Bartweiss 9y agoSuicides, yes, but Reyna's at least seems like a special case - even compared to other inpatient systems. Acute alcohol withdrawal is horrible, and can even be directly fatal. If an addiction treatment facility overlooked that or declined to provide urgent care, I'd impute a significant role to them even in a patient suicide. It's like hearing that someone committed suicide after a hospital ignored their need for pain relief - they may not be responsible for the death, but they're responsible for neglecting a serious need of someone in their care.