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Hospitals have been known to ban certain people and refuse to treat them. This was not too much of a problem, but now that we have medicine 2.0, hospitals are
by tomohawk 7y ago
Hospitals have been known to ban certain people and refuse to treat them. This was not too much of a problem, but now that we have medicine 2.0, hospitals are now part of systems, and so a ban often extends to all hospitals in the system. For example Mayo clinic controls a large number of hospitals in a geographic area, so getting care if banned could be practically impossible. Here's an example of a dispute that led to a banning:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/08/15/mayo-disputes-medical-kidnapping-cnn-story https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/08/15/mayo-disputes-medic...
It's not clear what other remedy than a lawsuit would work in such a situation.
Hopefully medicine 3.0 will be better.