To better understand the phenomenon of institutions crumbling (while crushing innocents) under the weight of their own incompetence, look no further than the sordid tale of “Killer King” hospital.
Built on a foundation of affirmative action, it was finally closed when it devolved into a butcher shop of medical malpractice. You won’t be surprised to learn that community activists denounced those who tried to do anything as racists.
Why care about merit? What harm is there in affirmative action programs that reward the less qualified?
Here’s the story of the Martin Luther King Jr/Drew Medical Center (King/Drew) in Los Angeles, which operated from 1972 to 2007.
Or as patients called, it “Killer King.” […]
Patients would come in with minor medical issues and end up dead.
Locals would run away from ambulances in order not to be brought to Killer King.
Police officers had an understanding that if their colleagues were shot, they would not allow them to be taken there.
It’s long and sordid.
Disregarding ability and hiring someone just because of their sex, skin color or last name can indeed have dire consequences. Just ask Canada.
What have you got against Kamala Harris?
Starting in the summer of 1968, I worked as a relief housekeeper at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton as my summer job. I would return the next year as well. The hospital’s housekeeping staff were primarily from the Caribbean nations and let us just say, their standards of cleanliness were not the same as mine – a white middle-class high school student. The women would use the same cloth which they used to clean the toilets on the new born babies’ bassinets. They would NEVER do a deep clean. I remember a pile of vomit which had congealed on the floor in the heart patients’ room. I had to use a paint scraper which I brought from home to scrape the vomit off. It had been on the floor so long that when I applied a cloth dipped in hot water to the vomit, the smell would “knock your socks off!”
In various stays in hospitals in Toronto and in Regina, I can honestly say that the quality of cleanliness has not improved in the last 50 plus years. If the hospital spaces cannot be kept clean which should be an obvious simple thing to correct, then how can the hospital have good professional health practices?
My son was born in that Edmonton hospital in 1967! So glad that he and his mother made it.
I had a knee replacement some years ago. I came home with an infection in my knee, a bad one, and a bladder infection (the only one I have ever had in my life.) I knew the hospital was dirty. When I got my second knee done, I went to the hospital in Camrose. It was clean and lovely and I made a very good recovery.
The sad part is its not even a racial issue.. Its a regulation issue.. You don’t wake up one day and figure.. You know, we don’t have enough unqualified white people running hospitals.. Lets canvas the trailer parks and see if we cant fix this white problem :)..
The hard truth.. Expertise stacks while mediocrity doesn’t.. Count those beans.. Send in the diversity officer to fumigate the truth out of the room.. You and your, I want to live is just racist :).. Sign here and here and here..
I don’t give a fcuk what anybody says or who is offended!!!!
THE THIRD WORLD IS OUR DOWNFALL
advances in medical care brought to you by eeoc. check in alive, leave when dead.
Competence is proof positive of white supremacy!
It brought a whole new level of meaning to the term “Iatrogenic misadventure”.
“Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S. Their figure, published May 3 in The BMJ, surpasses the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) third leading cause of death — respiratory disease, which kills close to 150,000 people per year.”
If this is the average for the nation, one wonders what the stats were here.
Here’s the story: finally, enough people made enough of the right kind of noise … so the politicians and bureaucrats took action and shut the shithole down.
Here’s a related story: in Canada, everyone knows our healthcare system has been deteriorating for the last two decades, but nobody says anything.
People complain non-stop about Canadian healthcare.
Nothing changes because we’re ideologically captured by status quo solutions.
“Better than America where everybody pays for everything!! At least here it’s free!”
So dumb.
They do their complaining at Tim’s. That’s the problem.
A few miles west of Chicago was a hospital called Loretto. Known locally as “Loretto in the ghetto”
Fine place if you suffered a few gunshot wounds… they had the experience. But check in with a minor problem and you’d leave in worse shape than when you arrived
I try very hard to never need a doctor or medical care.
Back in the late 1980s, I met a Navy surgeon who was doing a 6 month rotation in the emergency surgery department of Charity Hospital in New Orleans so that he could get first-hand experience with battlefield woulds (gunshots, edged weapons, blunt impact, etc.).
I lived in a relatively safer part of that region (Metarie) and still carried a pistol to take out the trash. Very glad I moved away.
What a turgid dump. It sounds entirely like the hospital in Paddy Chaevsky’s satire “The Hospital”. This was featured in the very dark comedy The Hospital starring George Scott and Diana Rigg in 1972. Chaevsky was writing satire, but this dump sounds like something Josef Mengele would have built. It speaks volumes about the crapulousness which is California that it took for decades to shut this deathcamp down.
You may want to look up the meaning of “turgid”. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
It kinda works. Swollen and congested.
“It kinda works. Swollen and congested.”
I don’t get that at all. A building is ‘swollen’?
JS is correct. Poor choice of words.
Not the physical building. The hospital institution or industry as a whole could be described as bloated and congested.
Let me guess: English is your second language, JS.
It’s the future of health care.
But don’t worry, in the Canadian version, you’ll soon be offered First Nations’ traditional healing from an elder.
And MAID.
As for the DIE scam artists – what a couple of big, fat, black cows. At my farm I have a few black lowline heifers. I’m renaming them Oprah, Michelle & Whoopi to show my black ‘allyship’.
It sounds like this hospital was the inspiration for the movie “The Hospital”
White Canadians have zero basis on which to complain. We all swallowed the feminist line 50 years ago, and as a result we stopped having enough babies to sustain our own culture. Immigration became the only way Canada could survive. Gradually that immigration shifted to the poorest and most illiterate countries on earth. Today white women in Canada are less likely than ever to have a good-sized family. We did this to ourselves, so stop blaming it all on poor black/brown people who are just trying to get by for the most part.
The Japanese kept the Third World out, but like Canada they lost the will to survive and their women don’t get married and their men watch anime. Japan will die even sooner than Canada.
The future belongs to those who show up. Cultures that succeed in the future will be heavily “patriarchal”, just like all successful cultures in history. We’ve tried the feminist route, and it has resulted in the absolute failure of our way of life.