Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jun. 24, 2008
Flawed System Is What Deserves Dumping
Patient dumping is a dangerous and disgraceful but predictable accompaniment to the "market-driven" health care system in the richest nation in the world, writes Jeffrey A. Lowe. - Forum Column
By Jeffrey A. Lowe
This article appears on Page 6
In the last year, reports have surfaced that hospitals have left homeless patients on the streets of Los Angeles, including a paraplegic man wearing a hospital gown and colostomy bag who witnesses say pulled himself through the streets with a plastic bag of his belongings held in his teeth.
This shameful and inh...
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