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Unethical Hospital Practice

How come no one talks about unethical practices at hospitals, especially the for-profit chains like hca or tenet. I know that many of these hospitals turn hundreds of patients without insurance away. Furthermore I know of one place in denver that allows unqualified surgeons to operate on well paying customers since this is a steady flow of income and profit. Why is this allowed to continue? Why does the public not question the hospital systems?


If anyone has similar experiences with doctors, surgeons and hospitals, please speak up!
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replied June 25th, 2009
Unethical Hospitals discharge as soon as insurance runs out
I know that Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center is paid on a graduated payment with the most paid out on the first day of admission and the least, almost nothing by the 9th. I know that beginning in March-09 Managers started pressuring all clinical staff, including doctors to discharge patients by 9 nine days. If you think it's not true.. Call Carla Olson at 612-273-6148. She is one of the ones telling all, "do you want to keep your home?" And, Dr. William Davis is one of the doctors assigned to 'review' cases to make sure this is happening (call him at (651) 365-8222). So much for healthcare...
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replied June 25th, 2009
Call them.. Let's see how they respond to real people who don't like knowing their decisions about your care are based only on their creature comforts... Let's not forget their inflated salaries and kickbacks for getting patients out of the hospital from HMOs...
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replied June 25th, 2009
Oh, did I mention that Fairview is a non-profit hospital cited by the press a few years ago for its hostile bill collecting practices (prior to our current economic crunch) while execs go on multiple paid trips, etc?
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