Medical Malpractice

Do you think that the cardiac care units should be cut instead of rape units in NYC hospitals?

"The city plans to slash its hospitals' special victims unit as part of steep budget cuts - sparking outrage among lawmakers and advocates. "What kind of message are we sending victims of sexual assault?" asked Brooklyn City Councilman David Greenfield. Four teams that currently help counsel rape victims and collect forensic evidence upon their arrival at each of the city's 11 hospitals are facing the ax. Health and Hospitals Corp. officials say inhouse doctors and nurses are trained to assist such assault victims. Eliminating the program would save an estimated $1.2 million this year, HHC President Alan Aviles told Council members. Overall, HHC plans to cut nearly $100 million this year and reduce its workforce of doctors and other hospital staff by 1,600 through attrition and targeted layoffs during the next three years. "It's going to be extremely challenging," Aviles conceded. Women's rights advocates say cutting the sexual assault response teams would be a travesty." Would it be wiser to eliminate emergency rooms or special care for women claiming to have been raped? Should we let people die from inferior care for heart attack patients so women making false claims can get counseling? Would feminists prefer to have men die so women who got too drunk and had sex with 5 guys then claimed rape can get free (medical) attention? http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/05/25/2011-05-25_ax_may_fall_on_rape_unit_at_city_hosps.html

Public Comments

1. sweet
2. That's very awkward, Q, but sometimes hard decisions have to be made. I think I'd prefer to know that my heart is in the right place when I attend a hospital.
3. First of many hard decistions that are coming. The party is over friends. We can't keep consuming more than we produce. And we can't keep borrowing money that we can't pay back and just get whatever we want. Our standard of living will continue to decline to the point we can sustain it with our current level of production (which is much lower than our current level of spending/consuming). A good law does the most good, for the most amount of people, for the longest period of time. I think the decision to cut special care for women over more general services meets that criterial. hence is a good decision.
4. AS LONG AS FUNDING FOR REPORTER JIHAD REMAINS UNTOUCHED WE WILL ALL BE SAFE!
5. you get raped, you can still live a good life after care you need cardiac care, that's a sign that you gotta let it go eventually i'd rather have my taxes going to people who could live then to people who are about to die when speaking of hospital expenses. if you are to the point that you NEED cardiac care to survive, me personally, i'd just get myself a space and have a nurse shoot me my morphine and die.... not make taxpayers pay for me cuz i don't want to die. "Would feminists prefer to have men die so women who got too drunk and had sex with 5 guys then claimed rape can get free (medical) attention?" yes to if a girl gets drunk, gets raped and gets free medical attension. also yes to mental health or whatever the politically correct term for a girl who accuses people of rape when they haven't... cuz OBVIOUSLY nobody needs that kind of bull. and yes to have men AND WOMEN die cuz cardiac care was cut back. although, new york, i believe that's american.... they rather have oil then have their people get medical care payed by taxes. so there's alot of work to be done before any of this goes thru.