Hospitals in the news
Posted at 10:48 AM on December 22, 2010
by Bob Collins
(2 Comments)
The category du jour is hospitals. We are not wanting for items in the news.
>> In Massachusetts, the UMass Medical Center has shut down its recruitment booths in New Hampshire which sought candidates for a bone marrow registry. The problem isn't that the recruiters used models in short skirts and heels in malls -- because nothing says "bone marrow" like a model in a short skirt and heels -- but that the hospital charged big fees to insurance companies to conduct DNA tests to match potential donors. (Boston Globe)
>> In Arizona, the Roman Catholic bishop of Phoenix stripped a hospital of its Catholic affiliation Tuesday for performing an abortion last year that doctors said was needed to save the life of the mother. "How is that better for anybody [if] both the woman and the fetus die, and then you have four orphans and a widower left at home?" a professor of religion told the LA Times.
>> A study out today says one out of every five people admitted to a U.S. hospital in 2008 were born the year that Franklin D. Roosevelt was first inaugurated president (or earlier).
>> Santa Claus will visit a children's hospital in Washington on Saturday. The director of the child life program at the hospital says in all his years, he's never heard a kid ask Santa to make him/her better for Christmas.
Comments (2)
I it just me, or does the whisling dude in the holiday video look like an older Desi Arnaz?
I’m in the bone marrow registry for reasons which are intense and personal.
I find the news that UMass Medical Center used sleazy tactics to turn the donor registry into a profit center, at substantial expense to potential donors, extremely offensive.
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