The book is out in online form at
http://www.furtherfield.org/friendsofspork/tlc.html
There is also an installation on “Redaction” along with information about how this book came to be.
The book will survive.
It is all that is left of the poet, the artist, the witness of her own demise.
Even redaction brings its own discoveries.
Here is the first: Some of the best well-researched accounts of medical mistakes are self-published.
So here is the question: If patient deaths and injuries are hidden from public view, how will the defects in our health system ever be repaired?
If people are being harmed by adverse events in their local hospitals, but their deaths are being reported as the result of “complications,” or the presence of an” underlying medical condition,” how can we protect ourselves?
Think of automobiles, think of peanut butter and spinach and lettuce and bean sprouts and chickens. Think of the recalls that result from flaws in these products.
Think of corporations declared as persons in the eyes of the law. Think of the protections provided while they place profits over people.
Think of humans dying from preventable mistakes in our hospitals. At least, 98,000 people each year. And we may know some of those humans.
But the story does not get out, because the story is both too large and too painfully small.
