NYT Upshot: Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought Hospitals

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/upshot/hospitals-medical-errors.html

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From the headline, I’m only surprised no increase in deaths!

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No surprise. They are all about making money. When your doctors office sells out to the big groups. Watch out. Quality diminishes. Medicine is changing to something that will be unrecognizable in the future.

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I read an excellent book by Gretchen Morgensen which included this very topic: These Are the Plunderers
How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

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Here is the abstract of the JAMA study: Hospital Adverse Events and Patient Outcomes Associated With Private Equity Acquisition

However, the full text is behind a paywall.

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Thanks, @mwfan1921

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anyone have access to the full text? I’d be interested to read what they said about the increase in “falls”, particularly since the group appears to be a tad younger. (Fall prevention typically focuses on the elderly.)

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This is awful and unsurprising … :rage:

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Am reading it right now. So angering what they get away with–so much damage so a few people can get richer.

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