Whitcomb: Memorial Hospital Refugees Flood ERs; No Open Borders; Protect the Corpse Removers
Monday, July 30, 2018
Robert Whitcomb, columnist
A sense of the numinous, or at least of other possible realities than what’s in front of our noses, that many of us carry around with us:
“These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.â€
-- C.S. Lewis
“Kids today want to buy vinyl records. So you’ll have hipster kids wanting to see paper soon. I don’t think touching paper and reading will actually go away. There will be need for leisurely reading and the tactile feel.’’
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D., the biotech billionaire who recently bought the Los Angeles Times.
Well to a point…
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Closed at the end of 2017 by Care New England
Memorial Hospital, in Pawtucket, may have been too uneconomic to remain open as a full community hospital, but state officials and others could have done a better job anticipating that closing Memorial, with its disproportionately sick and low-income clientele, would overwhelm the emergency rooms of the Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital. One reason is that America has about the most fragmented (and expensive) healthcare “system’’ in the Developed World, which leads all too many patients – especially low-income ones -- to use hospital emergency rooms as their main source of health care. That’s a notably inefficient and expensive way of getting care!
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