Patient Dumping is what it is called, and this Press Release is Damage Control and Spin Doctors, not MDs. I am just warning. Generally the ER is a different Corp. as are the Hospitalists. Thanks to the lawyers representing the victim, as they say. What they do not say is the victim had no health insurance, so they dumped him with no adequate screening and diagnosis, and the guy died and a serious epidemic (Texas, Maine, Emory Institute, (CDC palaver)) resulted, which could have been pandemic (Multi-National, that would be Global). We have a Federal law, and a Texas law that prevents patient dumping, but the reimbursements with Texas damage caps make it unattractive for trial lawyers. Why should you be interested: it is going on here, Tyler, Dallas (obvious) and is pandemic to America. We are the last vestige of a free open court doctrine of jurisprudence, but under tort reform, do not expect that the Legal System will protect you. Thomas Eric, who died, did not get to talk about how he suffered before he died- he died a nasty, painful and undignified, isolated death. He had and deserved our expectation of a standard of care which he did not receive, based on, not a lack of experience of ER staff, but based on his disability, a person without the ability to pay. His death could have been prevented. This is the system set up by the Conservatives and now they are Spinning. Do not cheer, for the nurses that were infected were under the fear of reprisals for talking out about the neglect and the patient dumping, a matter that the Law says is protected as a Whistleblower. Nobody wants to be one and it is a harrowing experience for all, and a leap of faith to follow the rules taught to the victims. The law says that the Nurses have a legal obligation to report this unlawful conduct of the Hospitals and the Doctors. They rarely do report, because all of this is swept away by the law protecting peer review and the hospital credentialing committees. This is part of your tort reform. You are ill informed if you think your elected representatives, and their appointed representatives will protect you. I am going to sew my own stitches at home. An ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure. The smell test has been a metaphorical calculator in things common, uncommon, medical and legal. Is your hospital for-profit, non-profit, teaching, public, private, governmental; or one or more of the above? Ask about it and look for Center for Medicare Services (CMS) required signs, The Joint Hospital Accreditation Credentials (?industry created and driven, based on reports.) Look for random inspections and audit reports--ask, because they do not post or advertise. Check the Internet, because rarely does a report get to the right office, and rarely is any action taken. If action is taken you might find among the glitz of What we can do for you..., a sanction that requires that We reluctantly tell you that we had a HIPPA violation and we gave away thousands of confidential identifiers (used to let people steal your identity.) Or we settled with CMS for denied false claims in the millions of dollars, for over-billing Medicare. Please evaluate this for yourself. Do what you think is best for you and your family. This may not be your experience. No advice offered here, other than what the digital voice says: If this is an emergency, please hang up and call 911... Good luck and God bless.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:29:55 +0000
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