Corruption is ubiquitious! Locally in the Cherokee government, state and federal government, people in leadership positions continue to syphon off taxpayer dollars.
At the same time, hospital business organizations take over local hospitals with a CEO whose only interest is money. Theirs! In a local hospital, a top OB/GYN physician was removed because she would not sell her practice to the hospital. Since they couldn't change her business structure, they went after her professionally. Physicians in surgical specialities do have malpractice issues. She was not the only OB/GYN in the hospital to have them. She was, however, singled out and her admitting privileges removed. A couple of years later, another OB/GYN physician suddenly left the area.
Like many physicians who enter health care because they truly want to care for people, in this cost driven environment, hospital business administrators want dollars. They want ownership.
Even in the late 60s working in a hospital in Baltimore, a surgeon with a large practice had many malpractice issues. I remember one pathologist telling me the surgeon left a 4 x 4 sponge in an 18 year old woman. Weeks later, she had a total hysterectomy due to complications from the sponge. Staff was told never to speak of that again.
I compiled the Tissue Committee Report back then and questioned the physicians many malpractice issues. I questioned them wondering if there were calculation errors because there were so many. I was told the numbers were correct, that the Tissue Committee was told to look the other way because the physician brought a lot of money into the hospital.
Know your provider. Do business with a hospital that has a history of treating people well - health care providers and clients. And, be sure to stand up to the real people in charge, not the local CEO - go to the top of the foundation that puts these clowns in place.
Buyer beware!
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