The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55309   Message #862052
Posted By: GUEST
08-Jan-03 - 07:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Any conservatives on Mudcat?
Subject: RE: BS: Any conservatives on Mudcat?
"I don't think most of the care-givers give a rat's ass if you have money, but the system does."

Agreed. But the reality is still that it is a person, usually a doctor or head nurse, who makes the decision to refuse to treat, and to refuse to admit, and the decision to discharge/patient dump.

People make those policies, and people carry out those policies. They do have the ability to choose not to work for inhumane health care systems, as many in the field choose to do every year. It isn't like there is a surplus of doctors and nurses, after all.

At the end of the day, if it is your job to deny treatment, then you are a monster too. And I don't use the word monster casually. I use it very specifically, to mean as in one of it's dictionary definitions (quoting here from my ole Funk & Wagnell's) "One who or that which inspires hate or horror because of cruelty, wickedness, etc."

There is no way to put a smiley face on the action of putting someone out of a hospital or clinic or doctor's office without treatment, because they can't afford to pay.