Friday, March 28, 2025

Incompetence or bad intent? (Tim C, RN on N Unit at EMHC)

"Never ascribe to bad motives those things which can just as easily be caused by incompetence." This is one maxim of investigation into bad results occuring in bureaucratic contexts.

On February 24, 2025, an N Unit staff named Tim C spoke with a doctor from an outside medical facility who called to consult with an EMHC doctor, regarding why an EMHC "patient" had not received prescribed medication. The doctor calling in mentioned that the "patient's" blood pressure was very high and the medication had been prescribed to deal with that specific problem. Why was EMHC incapable or unwilling to treat a clearly serious medical problem with the medication the doctor had prescribed? 

Tim is a nurse, and he blithely suggested that this particular patient was probably just clenching his fist to fake the high blood pressure reading. The doctor calling in was taken aback. Did this nurse think he was incapable of getting an accurate reading from a blood pressure cuff?! What kind of "hospital" or prison medical unit was this?!

It turns out Tim previously worked in security at EMHC, so maybe he was more into playing cop than playing medical professional. The security department at EMHC was reportedly very happy to get rid of Tim and his sarcastic, "know-best" attitude, when Tim was finally transferred to his current clinical job on N Unit. The outside doctor who called in on February 24 reacted to exactly the same, obnoxious attitude.

Just because Tim C might plead incompetence as opposed to intentional denial or attempted denial of necessary medical treatment (i.e., abuse!) for an EMHC "patient" (i.e., slave), it doesn't mean he's not in lots of trouble if that "patient" suffers some serious consequence due to the lack of treatment. When Tim glibly suggested to the doctor who called in to EMHC that the patient's blood pressure really wasn't high, he was questioning the doctor's competence as well as willfully or carelessly obstructing or discouraging proper medical treatment.

At the present moment there's no legal claim to which this evidence might be attached.

But we'll see.

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