In America profits before patients
The doctors in public health Karin Smith’s organization of the interview held they say, it was in order. She knew that this is not true. She was sick and sicker. Frustrated and frightened, she went to an independent doctor. The message could not be worse. Ms. Smith had advanced cancer of the cervix. If she was correctly diagnosed, if it support research, at age 22, his chances of survival would have 95 percent or more. Now she is 28 and that doctors say it is unlikely they will see 30
Ms. Smith (her real name) is a Certified Public Accountant, lives with her husband, Pete, Nashotah, Wis. your HMO is the Family Health Plan Cooperative of Milwaukee. In July testimony before a congressional committee studying health care fraud, Ms. Smith said:
“Even if my medical records were fully documented with the classical physical properties and symptoms of cancer of the cervix, no doctor or a doctor in connection with my HMO or his laboratory never a correct diagnosis.”
Three Pap lubricates and three biopsies were performed. “All the tests, but the fifth was wrongly by the laboratory of my contract with an HMO,” said Smith. “Unfortunately, they have a smear was dismissed read correctly, if they are poorly biopsy to confirm. All six tests indicate clearly that I am, indeed, have cancer of the cervix.
Ms. Smith the past three years trying to convince her doctors HMO she was sick. Your help is gone ask the unknown, because this is a new world of medicine to the USA, in a world that beats the impersonal and keeps driving rhythms of corporate greed. Patients are not so important in this world. They are little more than data entries in costly measures to reduce costs and the strengthening of profits as radically as possible.
The Smart Set, he called Managed Care. The Corporate species love. They crashed in all phases of the health system with their single-minded exercise of financial profitability, often at the expense of patients and the needs of caregivers.
Ms. Smith’s H.M.O. is a nonprofit consumer cooperatives. But it is inseparable from the American corporate culture dominates the health sector. Managed Care is, in essence, Corporate care. The decisions that were formulated by physicians who are leaders obsessed with the bottom line. In this context, patients can be treated impersonally as any other commodity.
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