Related to the Texas Presbyterian hospital shoving Duncan out the door because he couldn’t pay, the UMass nurses association had this press release in July, on patient care and hospital CEO’s greed.

Despite raking in $80 million dollars in profits in 2013, the CEO is cutting staff, to the detriment of patient health.

Despite posting profits of more than $80 million in 2013 and more than $300 million over the last five years, UMass CEO Eric Dickson has endorsed cost cutting measures and the reorganization of patient care services based on a manufacturing model borrowed from the auto industry.

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Yeah, because patients are not individual humans who get well at their own pace.  The auto industry?  Seriously?

“As registered nurses, we provide 90 percent of the clinical care our patients receive in our hospitals. We are the nurses who bear witness to the suffering of our patients, needless suffering caused by administrative neglect and the callous focus on the bottom line over patient care,” said Lynne Starbard, RN, a maternity nurse at the UMass Memorial Medical Center’s Memorial campus.

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I was shocked to see that Dickson is a physician.  Must be one of those physicians that entered the professions with $$$ in his eyes, instead of wanting to be a healer.  What a creep.