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Too bad the hospitals aren't trustworthy.

• tablespoon 4y ago
  > Too bad the hospitals aren't trustworthy. What the heck is that supposed to mean?
  • imoverclocked 4y ago
    From experience with immediate family in the US, hospitals can be quite scary currently. Reasons range from staff that doesn’t communicate to surgeries that are counter-indicated and scheduled without patient knowledge. Then there is the whole opaque billing process where you learn that the minor medication (like Advil) costs hundreds of dollars after the fact. Personally, a hospital is the last place I want to end up right now.
    • tablespoon 4y ago
      Going from that to "hospitals aren't trustworthy" in the context of newborn screening tests is a massive overreaction.
      • imoverclocked 4y ago
        Ok, let's try again. Hospitals are businesses optimizing for their bottom line, not for patient benefit. Law-enforcement has a lot of funding. Sharing data (obtained from humans without a fully developed consciousness) with law enforcement (for whatever purposes they want) is a massive overreach and has nothing to do with providing care for the patient. So, their best interest is not your best interest, but we should trust them implicitly?