"We respectfully disagree with the attorney general's opinion," said CPR spokesman Roland Halpern in a statement. "It wrongly approves cutting off critical services to patients who have no other viable options in the affected area, and permits the hospitals affected to move from general services to narrow, sectarian purposes."The thing is, the additional restrictions are vasectomies, tubal litigations and pregnancy terminations. I think it's interesting because these are somehow 'critical services' (in most cases they're not necessary to continue living, and if you need an emergency pregnancy termination you can get an ambulance to a nearby hospital, assuming that a doctor there wouldn't do it anyways as it's an emergency), and because they're only available there. I'd like to disagree - there are other hospitals in the metro area, and if you are near the highway, like Wheat Ridge is, then you can go just about anywhere in the metro area within 30 minutes. Now, maybe I'm wrong, but I think that I can probably wait an extra 30 minutes for my vasectomy. Finally, I feel it's very "PR"-ish to say that the hospital, with these additional restrictions, is somehow moving from general to 'narrow' purposes. Yeah, 'cause now they only do Catholic-themed surgeries. Puh-lease. How slanted their view is. (Note for those who may visit this and not know me: I'm not catholic, I'm not even christian, I'm noachide/jewish.) As a side note, I can't seem to find a website for Coloradoans for Patient's Rights. Either that, or Google hasn't picked up on them yet..
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Hospital transfer reasons seem overbroad
This story is interesting, although something of a red herring I think. Both some doctors as well as Coloradoans for Patient's Rights is concerned about the transfer, but for what in my mind isn't a valid reason, here's the quote:
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