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Pete Correll, who heads up the Board of Directors of the Grady Memorial Hospital, which provides care for the indigent in Atlanta, GA, was behind the heartless decision to pull the plug on patients receiving dialysis, which is a life saving treatment. When confronted with this at a medical board meeting, when all of the patients were present, he took out a full page ad in the Atlanta Journal Constitution defending himself. Do we detect a note of bad consciouss? You see, he had been tasked with helping Grady “make money”. But Grady is a hospital for the poor. It used to be that doctors saw their role as helping people. But now the hospital and insurance administrators are teaching them to think about making money, and not thinking about the welfare of their patients.
You can see Correll whining about being called a murderer. But what else is he if he pulls the plug on a treatment required for survival. And his comments about making money for a hospital that was established to provide treatment for the poor and indigent are ridiculous.
Let’s get doctors in charge of these boards and organizations. Not heartless former CEOs of organizations.
read for yourself and decide based on this ad taken out in AJC after the board meeting.
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How much did his ad in the paper cost?
This is as bad as Biederman writing his defense of himself letter or Charles Nemeroff’s “Dear Me” letter celebrating Effexor’s birthday.
I can’t fault this decision. The hospital had become a magnet for indigent illegal aliens from around the world. Why should this one hospital have to take care of all of these people? Nope, sorry. Not outraged. If you are outraged, then go raise some money and fix something. Otherwise, put your mouth where your money is.
Correll leaves out the fact that the patients served by the Grady Dialysis Center cannot GET treatment elsewhere because they don’t have the money to pay for it. Closing the center means that anyone who can’t come up with the money to pay one of these other centers WILL die. They will die a very ugly, very painful death, and their death will have been caused by Mr. Correll’s decision. The last time I checked; causing the death of someone else, whether by acting or refusing to act, was considered murder. Mr. Correll, if the shoe fits . . .
@Rasa Grady is not a “magnet” for foreign workers. These were ALL people working and living in the Atlanta metro region when they became sick. As to why should one hospital have to take care of all of “these people”. They don’t. It is the mission of Grady to take care of the indigent in Atlanta, and that is what they have done, up till now. I am not interested in your thinly disguised racist views, so take your comments elsewhere. If you don’t like what I have to say, don’t read my blog.