In 2011, my wife's 80 year old father was dying of brain cancer.
- They left him, on a gurney, in a hallway, for 48 hours!!!
- They mailed him the wrong cancer medication!!!
- They did not put up the hospital bed rails and he fell out of bed twice. The second fall was the end, it cascaded him into death.
- I spoke with a lawyer. He said it was extremely hard to win cases against doctors and hospitals. He said engaging with a case could easily cost me $400,000 and there was no real assurance we would win.
The system is completely corrupt.
Everyone associated with my father-in-laws care should have gone to prison and still be there.
Many, many, many doctors and other officials have testified before Congress about these kinds of abuses. Nothing gets done. I don't have proof that some politicians are being paid off, but I certainly assume that is the case.
I used to work as a bookkeeper in a funeral home. One time, right out of the blue, one of the funeral directors told me this story:
He said that he used to work as a rep for a major drug company. He said that he and all the other reps used to get together and laugh about how little bribe money it took for them to get doctors to prescribe the drugs they wanted, that they were selling.
Clear out of the blue he said this to me. I think he must have wanted to unburden himself from the guilt?
But, yes, that is near verbatim what he said to me. And hardly the only example of the deep corruption that exists....and not only in medical care. Clear across the board.
From what I can see, Congress has just stopped regulating industry much at all and now they get away with murder...sometimes literally.
I had a good friend that worked as a recruiter placing doctors . She had an orthopedic group as a client, which was always complaining to her that her placements weren’t “ booking” enough surgeries. Success at this facility centered around exceeding the minimum number of required surgeries.
Orthopedic surgeons were let go if they didn’t book enough surgeries. My friend reported this practice. These people should have lost their license to practice medicine, but no, to this day they are still in business.