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Only one of HCA's doctors was willing to go on record about its death panels: #GhasanTabel of #RiversideCommunityHospital (motto: "Above all else, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life"). Tabel sued Riverside after the hospital retaliated against him when he refused to follow the algorithm's orders to send his patients for palliative care.

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

Tabel is the only doc on record willing to discuss this, but 26 other doctors talked to Morgenson on background about the practice, asking for anonymity out of fear of retaliation from the nation's largest hospital chain, a "Wall Street darling" with $5.6b in earnings in 2022.

HCA already has a reputation as a slaughterhouse that puts profits before patients, with "severe understaffing":

and rotting, undermaintained facililties:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/roaches-operating-room-hca-hospital-florida-rcna69563

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

But while cutting staff and leaving hospitals to crumble are inarguable malpractice, the palliative care scam is harder to pin down. By using "AI" to decide when patients are beyond help, HCA can employ #EmpiricismWashing, declaring the matter to be the factual - and unquestionable - conclusion of a mathematical process, not mere profit-seeking:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/#garbage-in-garbage-out-garbage-back-in

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