On the great misery of Hadassah's patients and employees
It's hard for me as someone who is so close, but not yet there, to being a nurse, to read an article like this. I'm still in that ideological state of mind that as health care practitioners, we have an absolute ethical responsibility to our patients, because otherwise this kind of thing will inevitably happen.
However, it's equally as hard to read the stories going through my feed of nurses and doctors struggling to make ends meet month-to-month because Hadassah has failed to give them their full paycheck. Hadassah Hospital's management has failed to own up to how badly they fucked up, and in the process, fucked over their employees and their patients. Hadassah-WIZO has failed to take responsibility for its flagship project. The State of Israel, its Finance Ministry, and its Health Ministry has claimed that we "earn too much", that "there are too many employees", when we, who work on the floor and earn paltry paychecks for the hours and overtime we work, see the exact opposite. Health care economists condemn the new tower built at Ein Karem, yet they fail to see that the standard of care offered by this tower is how we, as young professionals, were taught as to what health care should be, and not five patients per room, exponentially increasing the potential cross-contamination hazard, as it was in the old building.
I don't have an answer as to how the everloving fuck Hadassah ended up in over 1 billion shekels in debt. I also have no answer as to who the fuck should cover that debt, as much as I would like to see the government cover as much of it as possible. All I know is that the patients are suffering. That is the bottom line. Patients are suffering and dying, the employees of Hadassah aren't getting paid properly, and everyone above us is flinging accusations of incompetence at each other while failing miserably to solve this goddamned problem. Fuck your accusations of incompetence. Solve the goddamned problem. And make it really fucking quick, so that patients can stop suffering and dying, and so that the employees of Hadassah will have a reason to go back to work beyond their personal ethical concerns vis-a-vis the patients.
However, it's equally as hard to read the stories going through my feed of nurses and doctors struggling to make ends meet month-to-month because Hadassah has failed to give them their full paycheck. Hadassah Hospital's management has failed to own up to how badly they fucked up, and in the process, fucked over their employees and their patients. Hadassah-WIZO has failed to take responsibility for its flagship project. The State of Israel, its Finance Ministry, and its Health Ministry has claimed that we "earn too much", that "there are too many employees", when we, who work on the floor and earn paltry paychecks for the hours and overtime we work, see the exact opposite. Health care economists condemn the new tower built at Ein Karem, yet they fail to see that the standard of care offered by this tower is how we, as young professionals, were taught as to what health care should be, and not five patients per room, exponentially increasing the potential cross-contamination hazard, as it was in the old building.
I don't have an answer as to how the everloving fuck Hadassah ended up in over 1 billion shekels in debt. I also have no answer as to who the fuck should cover that debt, as much as I would like to see the government cover as much of it as possible. All I know is that the patients are suffering. That is the bottom line. Patients are suffering and dying, the employees of Hadassah aren't getting paid properly, and everyone above us is flinging accusations of incompetence at each other while failing miserably to solve this goddamned problem. Fuck your accusations of incompetence. Solve the goddamned problem. And make it really fucking quick, so that patients can stop suffering and dying, and so that the employees of Hadassah will have a reason to go back to work beyond their personal ethical concerns vis-a-vis the patients.