Comments on: Grady Hospital Tells Non-citizen Dialysis Patients to Leave or Die

By: Low Testosterone Symptoms

Low Testosterone Symptoms — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 06:13:57 +0000

He lives in Oklahoma, we have to take it easy on him.

By: Just Saying

Just Saying — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:11:29 +0000

No offense, but why should we have to pay for someone’s healthcare that can’t even respect the laws enough of our country to enter it legally? They SHOULD go back to their home country and be their country’s responsibility. There are american citizens or legal immigrants who fall on hard times and need free or low cost medical care, but they can’t receive it due to the financial drawback of caring for all the illegals. Would you take food out of your child’s mouth and feed it to a stranger? Absolutely not! So why should America function any differently? Citizens and LEGAL immigrants are her children, and should be the ones taken care of. Period.
As for the people who were citizens and cut off, I do feel this is wrong. Maybe Grady should do like Planned Parenthood and ask for donations from each patient or set some sort of minimal treatment fee based to at least put a dent in the costs. Just saying.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:06:44 +0000

Sorry for all the typos I am on my cell phone and can’t see very well.

By: Crystal

Crystal — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:02:16 +0000

It’s hard to think that even know people are cruel and racist. Haven’t we hurt to many different races and people enough? When is enough, enough? My husband is one of those patients. People always say ” well why don’t you get his papers” or why isn’t he legal. When the simply fact is that to be legalized as of 2011 ( when terrorist attacked twin towers ( God bless their falling soles) a new law was placed that affect people in that process). Know when you are finalizing and meeting with officials you have to go back to the country of origin. When before 2011 you could do everything here. We have went through all the steps but the problem is that when he does go to Mexico for the meeting their isn’t insurance or dailysis like here. So I could be sending him to die. It’s not as easy as everyone thinks or says. It’s easy for someone to say ” well their illegals and using tax payees only” Well guess what I am a tax payer and so is all my family but we still pay for people who don’t want to work and are baby havers that do it yearly to keep benifits so that don’t have to work. Is that right to? No. My husband came here to work, to pay taxes, and to live the American dream like everyone else. He got sick here not in his country. He has paid Tass for more than 5 years and wont ever see a penny of it to help him like “Americans” will. No one in this group is asking for a free ride. They are asking for a just and fair treatment. Anyone else that has been turned away from a hospital could have sued and won for abandonment. Y’all don’t know what we have been through so you should not be so opinionated until you have walked in our shoes. Not knowing what going to happen and being bound my a small word like “illegal”. God Bless everyone fighting in our fight and God Bless everyone that doesn’t want to see the justice and truth, because the true judger is God on judgement day.

By: legalblond

legalblond — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:21:16 +0000

Surreal, you are right! what about all the millions spent in unnecessary things like show-off on that fake and annoying program… We are also worried about dogs and animals, but sending patients to “dead penalty” just because they are illegal and sick. Gosh… they are human beings

By: Doug Bremner

Doug Bremner — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:38:59 +0000

For followup on this unfolding story see side bar for
‘Do I have the right to live?’
‘I need the dialysis I think I will die’
‘Grady patients face certain death sentence’
‘These are real people’

By: Clayton Bixby

Clayton Bixby — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:17:15 +0000

Maybe we could send “those people” immigrants off on the same “Trail of Tears” that we used for the Cherokee Indians!!!

By: Surreal

Surreal — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:01:40 +0000

Oh my gosh, is this for real? Did Grady really tell their dialysis patients to “go back to their country!” How freaking prejudiced is that! Did I read the date correctly on the newspaper – is this really 2009? This is almost like a Dave Chappelle spoof or something…Go back to your country – for what – to die? Give me a break!!!
Way to go Grady Advocates. Stay on Gov. Perdue, etc. Where’s Jane, Ted, Usher, Mr. ColliPark, Real Housewives ATL?… Maybe a Wachovia account on behalf of the dialysis clinic.
I believe there are only 51 patients whose healthcare at Grady Dialysis is at risk. I think the good people of ATL ought to be able solve this problem.
Grady Advocates – be sure to play the race card – you know this is a racial issue. You will win.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:46:58 +0000

matt grove

I know one of the patients personally, and i know that what grady hospital said was a lie. they promised to give them care and transport them to other facilities, but in reality they were just going to leave them. If not, why do you think the patients(and others helping them) are doing so much to overturn this situation. The date to close the dyalisis was sept 19, that date has passed, and they havent found(or tried) a place for all these patients.

By: Grady Advocates for Responsible Care

Grady Advocates for Responsible Care — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:23:25 +0000

It is wrong, unethical and against our oath to uphold life to deny treatment of chemo to any patient. It is equally wrong to scare patients by cutting off their life line of dialysis and not offering an viable options to continuity of care. The “wrong” of the denied chemo does not make denying dialysis “right”! As practitioners we offer help to full acccess of care for everyone without threats and with sound options.