Is race playing a role in the demise of this much-needed public hospital?
Gradually over the years, Grady came to be controlled by prominent African-American activists and business players. The state and counties continue to fund an incompetent, inefficient, insufferable and impossible health system because the alternative is likely to be construed through the lens of American race politics.
Related posts:
- Grady Memorial Hospital on life support
- The hospital arms race continues
- Variance of care and race
- Grady Hospital: "The slowly-boiled frog"
- Heart disease and race
- Hospital building boom
- My take: Preventive care, Atlas, $$$, Grady bailout
KevinMD.com on Facebook
{ 3 comments }
Just like Martin Luther King Hospital in Los Angeles.
Too bad the spokespeople for the disadvantaged peoples are more concerned with maintaining the status quo than helping the disadvantaged. And are willing to tolerate criminals in the process
It took over 30 years of incompetence, accidental patient deaths, and outright murder to finally shut down MLK in Los Angeles because the black leaders kept screaming racism every time somebody tried to institute reforms.
How is this Grady situation going to affect Emory and its training of medical students?
Comments on this entry are closed.