I see you have never interacted with the hospital system
Doctors and nurses are great, highly qualified + they do magic. The administrative system that decides what to do on a strategic scale is pure malicious madness. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that they would decide to randomly accuse people of child abuse for no reason because it would make their inconvenience go away.
My parents have worked in a hospital in varying capacities from janitorial to administrative, to being the money people keeping the books balanced.
In the words of my mother, “the hospital owners will outright tell you ‘we don’t make mistakes so figure out how it’s the patients fault’”
She works trying to get insurance to cover things now and finally agrees with me that the while insurance system is a scam designed to fleece people out of money they already spent on Healthcare through taxes (because you pay more now in taxes for Healthcare than you would if the whole country moved to universal Healthcare, how’s that for “fiscal responsibility”)
This might sound tin foil hat-y, but the doctor - Petrak - is a contractor without an incentive to complete the work in a timely or efficient manner. I can’t see why he would push for a speedy closure.
That plus a hospital that doesn’t want to be sued for malpractice, plus a government agency where they would rather check boxes and maximize their metrics*, than consider the damage of their policies to innocent people is a recipe for torturing the public.
* I would assume they’re going for number of investigations, and not efficiency. They probably count raw numbers, and do what they can to catch every little thing - thoroughness can be good, mind you - because finding something is “proof” of their efficacy.
It’s a shame more families don’t sue in these circumstances to make the involved parties check themselves to ensure they aren’t causing more harm than good.
How did they conclude after seeing x-rays that the child’s bones were fine when admitted to the hospital that the couple must be abusing their kid???
I see you have never interacted with the hospital system
Doctors and nurses are great, highly qualified + they do magic. The administrative system that decides what to do on a strategic scale is pure malicious madness. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that they would decide to randomly accuse people of child abuse for no reason because it would make their inconvenience go away.
My parents have worked in a hospital in varying capacities from janitorial to administrative, to being the money people keeping the books balanced.
In the words of my mother, “the hospital owners will outright tell you ‘we don’t make mistakes so figure out how it’s the patients fault’”
She works trying to get insurance to cover things now and finally agrees with me that the while insurance system is a scam designed to fleece people out of money they already spent on Healthcare through taxes (because you pay more now in taxes for Healthcare than you would if the whole country moved to universal Healthcare, how’s that for “fiscal responsibility”)
This might sound tin foil hat-y, but the doctor - Petrak - is a contractor without an incentive to complete the work in a timely or efficient manner. I can’t see why he would push for a speedy closure.
That plus a hospital that doesn’t want to be sued for malpractice, plus a government agency where they would rather check boxes and maximize their metrics*, than consider the damage of their policies to innocent people is a recipe for torturing the public.
* I would assume they’re going for number of investigations, and not efficiency. They probably count raw numbers, and do what they can to catch every little thing - thoroughness can be good, mind you - because finding something is “proof” of their efficacy.
It’s a shame more families don’t sue in these circumstances to make the involved parties check themselves to ensure they aren’t causing more harm than good.