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This is the same show and same hospital NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital where a nurse was fired due to an Instagram photo she posted of a messy ER room (without a

This is the same show and same hospital NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital where a nurse was fired due to an Instagram photo she posted of a messy ER room (without anyone in it) the hospital administrators deemed insensitive.

pyre 12y ago
It was insensitive that she didn't correctly monetize that photo, and cut them in on the profits...
- in_cahoots 12y ago
  The article states that the hospital didn't actually make money off of the show. It was all about publicity, so that when you or a loved one is hurt, their name is the first one to come to mind.
  - ak217 12y ago
    They got the publicity all right, just not the kind that they wanted. Now NewYork-Presbyterian will be known as that hospital that tried to get publicity out of their patient's suffering.
    - nraynaud 12y ago
      I don't think I would ever bring a loved one in an hospital with a religious name if I have the choice.
      - cldellow 12y ago
        Just to clarify, if given the choice between two hospitals: "St. Joseph's Hospital" and "John Smith's Hospital" and you hear that the former has a statistically significant advantage in the area of care that your loved one needs... you would choose the second one, because of its name?
        nraynaud 12y ago
        frankly, I live in a country where only old ones have a religious name (for historical reasons, they are owned buy public entities), the new ones bear the name of a famous doctor, and the free ambulance will send you to the closest public one (unless it's specialized, like extended burns, then it's probably free helicopter to the relevant hospital). I'm still curious of how carefully selected the publicly available positive statistics on an hospital having a marketing department and operating on a competitive basis are.
  - colinbartlett 12y ago
    So they are monetizing the show in a creative way. They are still making money off of the show.
    - _asummers 12y ago
      That's when they hire the Hollywood accountants to come in and claim the show actually had losses.
mc32 12y ago
I don't know; it's like identifying yourself in anonymized data. It's like getting anonymized data for a study and there, you see things only you know correspond to you and then say, ha! they released my data, see here, this is my data! So, i say I don't know because there is voice --which they should have filtered out.
- dlgeek 12y ago
  She wasn't the patient. HIPAA requires the patient's consent to disclose information to ANYONE, including spouses. If she was able to determine information about the medical care provided to her husband that he hadn't consented to, that's a violation.

pyre 12y ago

It was insensitive that she didn't correctly monetize that photo, and cut them in on the profits...

in_cahoots 12y ago
The article states that the hospital didn't actually make money off of the show. It was all about publicity, so that when you or a loved one is hurt, their name is the first one to come to mind.
- ak217 12y ago
  They got the publicity all right, just not the kind that they wanted. Now NewYork-Presbyterian will be known as that hospital that tried to get publicity out of their patient's suffering.
  - nraynaud 12y ago
    I don't think I would ever bring a loved one in an hospital with a religious name if I have the choice.
    - cldellow 12y ago
      Just to clarify, if given the choice between two hospitals: "St. Joseph's Hospital" and "John Smith's Hospital" and you hear that the former has a statistically significant advantage in the area of care that your loved one needs... you would choose the second one, because of its name?
      - nraynaud 12y ago
        frankly, I live in a country where only old ones have a religious name (for historical reasons, they are owned buy public entities), the new ones bear the name of a famous doctor, and the free ambulance will send you to the closest public one (unless it's specialized, like extended burns, then it's probably free helicopter to the relevant hospital). I'm still curious of how carefully selected the publicly available positive statistics on an hospital having a marketing department and operating on a competitive basis are.
- colinbartlett 12y ago
  So they are monetizing the show in a creative way. They are still making money off of the show.
  - _asummers 12y ago
    That's when they hire the Hollywood accountants to come in and claim the show actually had losses.

mc32 12y ago

I don't know; it's like identifying yourself in anonymized data. It's like getting anonymized data for a study and there, you see things only you know correspond to you and then say, ha! they released my data, see here, this is my data! So, i say I don't know because there is voice --which they should have filtered out.

dlgeek 12y ago
She wasn't the patient. HIPAA requires the patient's consent to disclose information to ANYONE, including spouses. If she was able to determine information about the medical care provided to her husband that he hadn't consented to, that's a violation.