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> [I]n April 2019, Amazon contracted with a new clinic for its injured Colorado workers: Advanced Urgent Care & Occupational Medicine, a local operation that pr
by zaroth 6y ago
> [I]n April 2019, Amazon contracted with a new clinic for its injured Colorado workers: Advanced Urgent Care & Occupational Medicine, a local operation that promoted itself online as “OSHA-Sensitive.”
> According to the Advanced website, Julie Parsons, then its occupational medicine medical director, believed in “treating injuries such that they are not OSHA recordable, if possible.”
> A nurse practitioner who worked at the clinic said she dreaded seeing Amazon patients because she didn’t think she would be able to treat them appropriately. She said she remembers an Amazon worker who came to the clinic in a lot of pain from a wrist injury, crying and asking, “Can’t you do something?”
> “I’m really sorry,” the nurse practitioner recalled telling her. “There’s really not a whole lot I can offer you right now.”
Is there a RICO-equivalent to medical malpractice? This is conspiracy and fraud, aside from what should be a blistering class action lawsuit.
Part of the reason I don't think we should tamp down too hard on a lawfirm's share of monetary damages is because there should be large (well-funded) firms who would salivate to take on such a case against Amazon, even if it could take 10 years to go through, even if it might fail in the end.