I am near the end of the summer semester, and am at the point where I'll be sending most of my complete writing to publishers/magazines/newspapers and the like. This is something that I have been looking forward to.

One of the things I'll be sending out is the paper I wrote last semester for Expository Writing. The title is FOR PROFIT HOSPITALS VS. PATIENT CARE: HOW THE BOTTOM LINE ADVERSELY AFFECTS PATIENT CARE.

According to the sources I used in the paper, if two hospitals are equal in everything offered (ERs, CCUs, ICUs, surgical wards, etc), the only difference being one hospital is for-profit, the other being a non-profit facility, a patient in the for-profit facility runs between a 5-25% greater chance of dying than in the non-profit facility. Now, we're not comparing a 75 year old cardiac patient verses a 25 year old patient with, say, a minor day-surgery problem; we're comparing apples with apples (patient-wise). Five to twenty-five percent greater chance of dying.

Pretty scary, huh?

Anyone who hasn't checked my other blog, it's www.northsidehospitalproblems.blogspot.com.

Can writers change things for the better? I'd like to think so.