Institutional ties override medical need in deciding who receives emergency care.

Evidence

It is relatively easy to find other examples in which emergencies depart from this definition. As indicated previously, emergency rooms accord special treatment to patients who arrive in police vehicles, regardless of their medical condition. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1017

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s interest in how interagency relationships silently rank clients. — connects to: Institutions chose protecting a donor over protecting the children in their care — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 556; Regular medical examination reordered hospital authority and produced a new knowledge — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 285

Broader Connections

• Institutions chose protecting a donor over protecting the children in their care #exemplifies (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 556
• Regular medical examination reordered hospital authority and produced a new knowledge #complicates (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 285