Let's talk reality.
COVID creates this very situation: your closest hospital can't take more patients so you ambulance to a distant hospital and there you die.
Hurricanes create this very situation: flooding destroys your closest hospital's emergency generators and...
Let's continue to talk reality
Women die ALL THE DAMN TIME because hospital ERs won't take them seriously
Here's a story from THIS year where... oh hell, just read the headline:
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Let's CONTINUE to talk reality.
Black people in general die needlessly in hospital ERs. Here's CCTV footage of a Black woman who died in ER. She laid dead for HOURS.
A nurse got fired for manipulating her ER records in a coverup.
Now let's review the HISTORY of reality.
In WWI, Marie Curie offered to melt her two solid-gold Nobel prizes to fund what the French Minister of War DETESTED -- saving lives & limbs on the battlefield. He relented ONLY to stop her going to the media.
And since we talked about France in WWI, let's recognize the history of this dead patient's home country: GERMANY
Teutonic hospitals pre-WWII straight up KILLED their own German citizens w/ infirmities, retardation, or born to "Zigeunerin" mothers
securityweek.com/german-hospita…
And since we're talking about history, let's review the horrific U.S. policy of SEGREGATED HOSPITALS
Black patients couldn't go to the nearest hospital if it was for whites only
In many cases, Black patients went to the BASEMENT for lifesaving help
usnews.com/news/articles/…
Okay, enough history; let's talk TODAY'S reality
Hospital medical files are RIFE w/ errors
I considered linking to the #anecdote of patients who overdosed on radiation treatment
But instead I chose this #analysis from NIH's Nat'l Library of Medicine:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Let's continue to talk about reality.
Racist patients w/ life-threatening issues QUITE OFTEN refuse to visit the nearest hospital, or they leave ER, when they discover their attending physician is a POC or Jew or Muslim or Hindu or...
wsj.com/articles/how-d…
Okay, let's wrap up our #cybersecurity talk on the reality of patients dying NEEDLESSLY in hospitals
If you think today's hospital #ransomware story is "significant"
Then you MUST answer the question I've posed multiple times since #WannaCry's debut:
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