When so confronted with the senselessness of humanity (or at least some of what, due simply to physical classification, can be termed as humans), a part of me dies.
The behavior of the "hospital" absolutely astounds and confuses me. I understand money has to be made in order for research to continue - sadly, this is the way the economy of the world in general works. But how can people not understand that by automatically limiting their subject based on ability to pay hurts their research itself more than it benefits their pocket book? For goodness sake, they knock out potential excellent subjects before they even get a chance to look at them, making their research pool smaller and therefore limiting the scope.
Of course, if they are the only ones bothering to research this death sentance, then I guess they get all the potential folks they need, because desperation makes people do insane things for money. And those who won't can go hang...
It makes those few doctors who are truly in it for the good of the patients that much more precious - like Nancy, making her loss not just a personal tragedy for which I am very sorry, but a tragedy to medicine as well. Of course, I also know that the freedom to take patients on whatever terms you like is limited mainly to those in private practice, and the doctors in this case are probably much less to blame than the hospital administrators in charge of the research department. Those are the criminals in this story.
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The behavior of the "hospital" absolutely astounds and confuses me. I understand money has to be made in order for research to continue - sadly, this is the way the economy of the world in general works. But how can people not understand that by automatically limiting their subject based on ability to pay hurts their research itself more than it benefits their pocket book? For goodness sake, they knock out potential excellent subjects before they even get a chance to look at them, making their research pool smaller and therefore limiting the scope.
Of course, if they are the only ones bothering to research this death sentance, then I guess they get all the potential folks they need, because desperation makes people do insane things for money. And those who won't can go hang...
It makes those few doctors who are truly in it for the good of the patients that much more precious - like Nancy, making her loss not just a personal tragedy for which I am very sorry, but a tragedy to medicine as well. Of course, I also know that the freedom to take patients on whatever terms you like is limited mainly to those in private practice, and the doctors in this case are probably much less to blame than the hospital administrators in charge of the research department. Those are the criminals in this story.
Blah. And *HUGS*.
-K