What’s that grinding noise?

Talk about tragic.  Talk about preventable.  Talk about a 22 year-old executive director with bare minimum credentials being in charge of whether or not to call 911 when a patient’s condition demands it.  Talk about inane.   

Where in hell’s half acre was the medical professional?  Where was the person with one eye and half-sense, invoking the notion that even one so disabled could have seen the obvious and made the right call.  Hindsight what it is, we know that the death of the gentleman at a local assisted living facility was preventable and will most assuredly be adjudicated as such and I hope so. 

What kept the others from acting on behalf of the patient?  What compelled them to willfully engage in neglect?  Where was that one eyed half sense person?  Self interest being what it is, I bet it was fear of censure and/or the threat of being fired outright.  After all, minimum wage earners are the easiest to manipulate.  If accused, they can always peruse the Nuremberg Defense, “I was only following orders.”  

It needs to be said, that what transpired can, has and will continue to happen until corporations and their principles are made responsible and held accountable.  I mean, the Supreme Court said corporations are people too.  Time will tell.  In the years to come, we will be treated to more incidents of the inept making life and death decisions.  It will happen because profits are paramount, and care is just a word bandied about in a brochure.   

I fear if this is just the tip of the iceberg, then the baby-boomers are the Titanic.  No problem, you say.  Tell the Marconis to take the night off, we’ve got an executive director at the helm.  What could possibly go wrong?