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This is one way to make a profit off the patient. I wonder if it would have happened if she had no insurance. Highly unlikely as the hospital wouldn't be able t
by mnm1 8y ago
This is one way to make a profit off the patient. I wonder if it would have happened if she had no insurance. Highly unlikely as the hospital wouldn't be able to milk the patient for money.
A second issue is these social workers whose main goal seems to want to remove children from parents and break up families in general for what I can only say is their own sick amusement. This is a fucked up job that gives way too much power to people who really don't care about others and often are unsuited to work with others. No one or even two individuals should have this kind of power. Removing someone's legal ability to make choices for themselves or their children should only be done by a consensus of multiple, independent parties that are not allowed to communicate with each other.
Finally, why did the DA not file charges of wrongful detainment / kidnapping against the hospital? This is not a mere disagreement. The article brushing this off as some petty doctor ignores the kidnapping and sending the police after the patient based on false statements to the police. At the very least the social worker, doctor, and nurse who contributed to this should all be fired and lose their licenses. These people should not be working on their respective fields and likely should be in jail. I hope the patient does sue but that won't prevent greedy or petty healthcare workers with too much power from doing this in the future.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThis is one way to make a profit off the patient. I wonder if it would have happened if she had no insurance. Highly unlikely as the hospital wouldn't be able to milk the patient for money. I have no idea how to find it, but your comment reminds me of some horrifying article about the addiction treatment industry leeching all the money they could from patients with good insurance without really getting them better, not sincerely trying to do so.
- mnm1 8y agoThey made a documentary about it as well: http://www.thebusinessofrecovery.com/phone/index.html http://www.thebusinessofrecovery.com/phone/index.html Hardly surprising. Every other medical specialty does the same and addiction treatment is essentially unregulated. Lots of suffering and misery to exploit here to make a ton of money for people with no morals (of which there are many).
- Para2016 8y agoWhat are you on about??
- mschuster91 8y ago> This is a fucked up job that gives way too much power to people who really don't care about others and often are unsuited to work with others. The problem is that CPS (or equivalent) jobs aren't nearly paid well enough, with an ever rising load of cases (for example due to morons calling CPS on their neighbors for letting their kids play in the garden). This results in underpaid, probably underqualified, and massively overworked employees. Which in turn often leads to employees preemptively taking kids out of families because they're afraid they might be on the hook if they leave the kids, but don't have the time to properly assess the situation.