This story is wild and also highly expected in the American health care system. This little bit is notable:
"On hospital computers, electronic medical charts sometimes specify whether patients have donated to the hospital or how they are connected to executives, according to screenshots taken by frustrated doctors in recent years and shared with The Times."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/health/nyu-langone-emergency-room-vip.html
h/t @thePhDandMe@twitter.com
@alex … and why not? no different than college & university fund-raising operations’ dbs looking for positive flags … and electable & elected politicians, pds, psych units, private pre-schools, private mechanics, cleaners, insurance cos, our local dpw routing snow plow routes … it’s how stuff works …
@shyduroff Why shouldn't hospital ERs have VIPs? wtf
@alex @shyduroff triage in ERs is meant to be based on the severity and emergency of patient’s condition, not their level of connections and amount donated. If prioritizing a VIP means someone with a more critical condition has to wait longer and possibly die or suffer health issues from that wait, then imo that’s not good medicine. Especially when hospital staff are stretched thin. To my knowledge there is no VIP section with dedicated VIP staff?
