@raphjd said in Minnesota surgeon fired from hospital for saying parents, not government, .....:
I wonder if Feng Feng realizes that virtually no US hospital is 100% private. I would say that 100% of them get at least some government money, which makes them quasi-government agents.
It's the same for ALL businesses, schools, hospitals, etc, etc, etc, etc that gets government money.
Also a correction. About 1/3rd of UK hospitals are privately owned and this number is rising. Most doctors at private hospitals double-dip by working both at the NHS and privately. My private ENT doctor is also the head of the ENT depart at the NHS for my city.
It doesn't matter who owns the hospitals in the US, because the hospitals don't actually hire DOCTORS to staff them! They hire "consulting companies" to provide the physicians...
It's all part of a corporate shell game intended to thwart personal injury attorneys from getting massive payouts for medical mistakes/failures/omissions/malpractice/etc.
SOMETHING had to be done to stop the PI lawyers, and attempts at legislating a solution were successfully blocked by the PI Attorney lobbies... So, this is the "fix" - wrap everyone around "corporate shields" that insulate each layer from liability from any other layer.
Unfortunately, as I pointed out, this Dr is now employed by a private company, meaning he has no 1st Amendment right to free speech. His employer can fire him for his speech, for his haircut, or for having improperly groomed pinkie fingernails... and his employment contract makes that very clear.
This isn't right - he shouldn't have been fired. Don't take my description of why it's legal as an agreement that it should be!!