Posted on 04/27/2008 6:52:04 AM PDT by Dysart
As a poster, you need to set context. The article does not clearly indicate what state, or even what country, we are talking about here.
You may live in Texas and know the Star-Telegram is the Fort Worth paper, but FR has a worldwide readership, and 90% will have no clue.
I know the solution! Nationalize it! QUICK! Throw more money at it!
I spent 7 years at Parkland in Dallas, arguably the sister institution to JPS. Some of this existed way back then (80’s) but I honestly don’t think Parkland was as bad as all this when I was there. However it is true that if the culture of a place is a certain way, lack of equipment, lack of staff, poor attitude, a lower social strata of patients, you do get into a certain vicious cycle - I can certainly see how that could happen.
Alabama?
Money isn’t the problem as the article spells out. We have a hospital admiration problem here.
Exactly. Alabama. Good sleuthing.
Actually, I googled JPS and Star-Telegram.
No, just quick.
There is only one Fort Worth——TEXAS, always Texas. It says right at the beginning of the article—Tarrant County. Everyone should know that.
Also, there’s a little box to click when posting articles that will show what state it’s from. One little mouse click.
If you open the link to the Star Telegram story, the top of the page says Star Telegram—Fort Worth, Texas. How much more is needed?
How much effort does it take to click the little box beside US: Texas?
I added Texas to the topics and ‘illegals’ (since the story is really about illegal immigration) to the keywords.
JPS is a cluster foxtrot—but they saved my backside so can’t gripe here.
Setting context is more than just saying what state and town it is.
The article is written for local readers. The author expects the readers to be familiar with the hospital and its position in the medical care hierarchy of Fort Worth. A local who regularly reads the paper would have some sort of general impression of what goes on at this hospital, and how it is probably funded.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Disgraceful! This place should be closed and its administrators brought up on charges!
Yet, at the same time, I have seen how people who make up the prospective client base of JPS go untreated not because of the system, but because they are too lazy to even try.
I know one person who would rather let his epilepsy kill him than sit in a waiting room.
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