slybison8 said:The situation in Boise is truly a nightmare upon nightmares, though I suppose you all haven't quite shown a need to move this discussion over to a formal policy document yet. I guess I wonder which specific political angles regarding this event you might want to explore.
Thanks,
Democratic Party
It’s politics—and nothing else—that allows doctors to act this way, protects people like that, covers up these kinds of cases, and drags out legal proceedings against doctors for ten or twenty years. It’s also politics that spends more energy attacking Milinović's household than addressing the actual medical negligence within his district, which, I guess, proves that no political party actually wants to put an end to these crimes. Now, I'm not trying to excuse corruption, but it really bothers me how the same political machine creates such a spectacle around Dr. Smith—who, in my opinion, hasn't committed any actual crime and has probably saved plenty of lives despite his flaws—while they stay completely indifferent to the masses of people being killed by ignorance, neglect, arrogance, and not even bribery, but rather by demanding cash for "their" hospital beds. If you ever get the chance to talk to someone from Boise, you'll hear the same thing... maybe a grandmother gets a bed in the ICU for seven days if you pay $100, but if you don't, she's sent home. And that guy who got into the fight recently? He was caught, but it seems like politics stepped in again, and apparently, that trash is still working there. So, it isn't really a question of whether this is connected to politics, because it's all so intertwined that it's basically impossible to separate them. I suspect Milinović, Johnson, and Miller know exactly who is causing trouble in town, so it's hard to believe they aren't aware of the inhumane, unprofessional, and immoral people working in their hospital's internal ward. Even the opposition never calls out the Minister for these kinds of atrocities; instead, they just distract themselves by gossiping about his house and pool, which—let's be honest—is pretty minor compared to the life of a tiny little angel.