Let's see when "the hospital" was replaced by "the healthcare network" it was said to eliminate waste and reduce spending in order to lower health care costs. Now, the healthcare system in the USA is run by CEOs rather than MDs. The CEOs ration the services of the medical profession, dictate the hospital stay of patients and profit the entire time.
WHAT CEO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MESS?
The American people don't receive services from the health care industry, they receive grief and nail biting. The fact is major infrastructure change has to take place in the USA, the infrastructure is at a breaking point due to profit taking and this is a prime example. Who is profiting from shortchanging American children fighting for their lives?
October 15, 2019
A critical drug that serves (click here) as the backbone of treatment for most childhood cancers, including leukemias, lymphomas and brain tumors, has become increasingly scarce, and doctors are warning that they may soon be forced to consider rationing doses.
Persistent shortages of certain drugs and medical supplies have plagued the United States for years, but physicians say the loss of this medication, vincristine, is uniquely problematic, as there is no appropriate substitute.
“This is truly a nightmare situation,” said Dr. Yoram Unguru, a pediatric oncologist at the Herman and Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital at Sinai in Baltimore. “Vincristine is our water. It’s our bread and butter. I can’t think of a disease in childhood cancer that doesn’t use vincristine.”
Shortages of the chemotherapy drug, which is on back order, will likely affect children throughout the country, he said, obligating physicians to make difficult decisions....
