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If it’s so critical that nurses are left standing around clueless then if it goes down entire teams of people should be going to prison for manslaughter. Or, w
by Red_Leaves_Flyy 2y ago
If it’s so critical that nurses are left standing around clueless then if it goes down entire teams of people should be going to prison for manslaughter.
Or, we could build robust systems that can tolerate indefinite down time. Might cost more, might need more staff.
Pick one. I’ll always pick the one that saves human lives when systems go down.
- pca006132 2y agoAnother way to look at it is that you can have more hospitals using systems with a lower cost, thus saving more lifes comparing to only a few hospitals using an expensive system.
- sgregnt 2y agoThis isn't another way to look at it, this is the only way to look at it.
- rjbwork 2y agoOkay but that will affect hospital profits and our PE firms bought these hospitals specifically to wrench all redundancy out of these systems in the name of efficiency (higher margins and thus profit) so that just won't do.
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- __loam 2y agoPrivate equity people need to start getting multiple life sentences for fucking around with shit like this. It's unironically a national security issue.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 2y ago1. Hospitals should not make profits. 2. Hospitals should not have executives. 3. Hospitals should be community funded with backstop by the federal government. 4. PE is a cancer - let the doctors treat it.
- jmcgough 2y agoDoctors can't even own hospitals now. Doctor-owned hospitals were banned with the passage of Obamacare in order to placate big hospital systems concerned about the growing competition.