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This affirms my belief that I’ll never move to a small town in part bc I might need health care someday

I read the complete article. The team who put this together deserves some serious respect.

Outstanding reporting and storytelling.

Nope. Having had my body splayed wide open for several surgeries, there is NO WAY I'd agree to room cameras or wide field body cams - just for it to become internet fodder. ...and I've decided to forgo further surgeries & die instead. Better option: tight field procedure cams & internal video.

I'm sorry that this happened to them, but in my experience, when a staff member of the hospital tells you you should move your patient to a better hospital, move him.

I had to stop & cry my eyeballs out at least 5 different times reading the article. It’s gut wrenching & infuriating. Incredible journalism. Thank you!

Shameful care.

I 💙 ProPublica. Their serious, in-depth reporting is second to none. If you have a few dollars to spare each month, you'd be hard pressed to spend them for anything better than this trusted news source, so rare in our "slap-dash info" age.

I don’t understand when do you get to the negligence part? A bad outcome doesn’t mean bad care

In 46 0r so of the states, medicine is the main industry. But like all other industries, it is about making money for billionaires not being "Do no harm" medicine.

5/ Mrs. Parker said she could wait. “Hell, we can stand on our heads for 72 hours if we need to,” she told one of her daughters. Then, 24 hours in, she heard from someone she barely knew: a middle manager in Phoebe’s HR department.

A cousin of mine went in for a routine change of batteries on her pacemaker. She was in her 30s, married, with two young children. She died on the table.

Yikes

Breathe my friend. @drdannypenman.bsky.social

You're getting dragged for this, but you're 100% right.

So, you're mad because you were... inconvenienced? Seriously?

Literally no one has to do that. ("Poet?")

On 11/19 while waiting for my mom to come out of open ❤️ surgery at Emory, I met a woman whose husband came in at the same time for his procedure - an ablation. They drove in all the way from Albany, GA. Now I know why.

You’re right bill. It’s a shame Americans prefer this over other systems simply because we’re to racist and bigoted as a country to vote against this.

@threadreaderapp.bsky.social Please unroll

It depends. At the bottom of a swimming pool, yes. On life support, no.

It’s a lot of time

The business dealings of this supposedly nonprofit community hospital do concern me but that’s what our system incentivizes. Again far from unique. Finally note the hospital’s quality grades bounced around from F to A to C, raising questions about the reliability of these scores. Story is well done.

We need Paul Harvey right about now.