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In reply to the discussion: Poo* advocates let patient die [View all]Warpy
(114,572 posts)56. Science had nothing to do with it
Extremely short staffing did.
I can tell you it's pure hell to have your license on the line every day you go into work because you can't be ten different places at once.
Had the man received timely assessment and treatment
by a health professional who was not rushed because s/he was wearing ten hats at once, he would still be alive today.
It's very typical to blame established medical treatment for this death when the non delivery of such treatment is what caused it. Whoever wrote this horseshit should have gone after hospital management, not standard health care as a whole.
In other words, it's a monumentally stupid article.
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Really? scientific materialism advocates making people wait 8 hours for er care?
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2014
#2
Difference being, if he had been seen by a doctor, he'd probably be alive.
Liberal Veteran
Jan 2014
#3
That guy died waiting for real medicine. Just like a lot of people getting quack treatments do.
LeftyMom
Jan 2014
#4
I don't get it. If he had taken a tincture of bat shit diluted 10,000X times in water, he'd still be
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2014
#13
Did you notice that your example did not see a doctor, was not killed by a doctor?
uppityperson
Jan 2014
#63
Fortunately, the modern vernacular contains a phrase up to the task of describing this OP
stevenleser
Jan 2014
#78