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Someone’s Judgment, in qualifying/hiring this subject may provide grounds for a lawsuit by each victim under an HR doctrine known as Negligent Hire and/or Negligent Retention.
I am not going to search my Posts to find where I have written that I believe the AMA declared Alcoholism as a “disease” so insurers would pay for “treatment”…but that Physicians mostly walked away from treating this “disease.” Additionally, they landed upon a cadre of recovering persons who obtained Masters Degrees who are the ones that recovering candidates interface with for treating their “disease.” Cynical? If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, you see a Doctor and skilled nurses for dialysis.
The deaths and injuries should spark a thorough review for onboarding non-medical personnel who Counsel persons having diseases defined by the AMA in the 1950s.
Physicians; if you truly believe it is a disease, then treat it without using non-medical middle-men/women.
AMA, if you had two reasons for declaring it a disease:
1.To bring societal pressure on insurers to pay for the treatment.
2. To remove a societal stigma of the “alcoholic-as-weak-willed”
Then please roll-up-your-sleeves and start Physician treatment.
posted by dryjordan @ July 06, 2024
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