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I’d note that the hospital administration was mentioning this, rather than a particular doctor providing care. Or, the former has a financial incentive to keep
by danbolt 4y ago
I’d note that the hospital administration was mentioning this, rather than a particular doctor providing care. Or, the former has a financial incentive to keep care costs low (especially given the current government in Ontario).
- Natsu 4y agoThe one person named was an administrator, but it's not particularly clear who the "staffers" were. It's possible some of them were doctors, but it's hard to say. That said, I feel like the point here was that it wasn't likely to be pushed at people who hadn't asked, and yet it was, not that it was uniquely bad coming from a doctor vs. an administrator.
- BeefWellington 4y agoThe comment you quoted explicitly mentioned doctors and specifically mentioned the Hippocratic oath. You omitted that part of the sentence from the quotation in your reply but it was very clearly about Doctors.
- Natsu 4y agoBut "staffers" may well include doctors, and there's nobody here who can say either way unless someone steps up with the recordings. I left out the rest because I wanted to point out that there are people with financial incentives who did push this and I don't see why it matters if they're doctors or "staffers" or the hospital's Director of Ethics. If the Director of Ethics and their staff think this is appropriate, it'd be more surprising if the doctors didn't engage in the same.