Posting a review of a bad healthcare experience is one of the very few options for neglected and abused service users to create accountability.
The healthcare system is woefully lacking in safety and accountability mechanisms to the extent it offers layers of protection to heinous abusers like Earl Bradley and Larry Nassar, so they can continue to harm innocent and vulnerable people for years or decades despite ongoing complaints.
By suppressing vital information about abusers and allowing them to continue their abuses, hospitals essentially feed victims to perpetrators. They are aided by the tendency of licensing boards to also do nothing.
This is “healthcare” in America and the “justice” system doesn’t care. We shouldn’t have to “hope the next one is better,” as a Delaware deputy attorney general advised as the best way to “protect” oneself from potential harm from other malignants in white coats, safeguarded by silence and backed by huge corporate resources.
But this is what corporatized America gives us, which is one of the reasons that telling the truth of my lived experience is the only justice I have known.
A provider might be able to have the negative review removed, as I’ve seen with my review of one abuser in a white coat. But before they do, they will certainly see it, and perhaps others will, too–and be steered away from bad players.
I did what I could do, and it feels empowering to put the truth out there, where at least someone might find it. I will not be complicit through silence and I will not be silenced.
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