{"id":13241,"date":"2015-11-03T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13241"},"modified":"2015-11-03T08:17:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T13:17:41","slug":"what-its-like-to-be-an-elite-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/what-its-like-to-be-an-elite-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"What It\u2019s Like To Be An Elite Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/110315_1315_WhatItsLike1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"492\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shoa L. Clarke wrote about the experience of rich patients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At one hospital elite patients are given red blanket to signify their status. There are no explicit instructions on how they should be treated, but all the staff know what a red blanket means.<\/li>\n<li>Such patients are offered penthouse patient suites with gourmet food, luxury linens, and personal business centers.<\/li>\n<li>A survey of emergency departments indicates that elite patients are likely to get quicker treatment than regular ones.<\/li>\n<li>Yet patient satisfaction is correlated with negative outcomes \u2013 meaning that all this coddling may be bad for the rich.<\/li>\n<li>The reason seems to be that doctors are likely to order too many tests and prescribe too many treatments to ensure that top patients feel satisfied, ultimately hurting the patients&#8217; diagnosis and recovery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/26\/opinion\/hospitals-red-blanket-problem.html?_r=3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Centives has previously covered the amenities that the super-rich receive at hospitals. You can read about that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-hospitals-of-the-super-rich\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/26\/opinion\/hospitals-red-blanket-problem.html?_r=3\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoa L. Clarke wrote about the experience of rich patients: At one hospital elite patients are given red blanket to signify their status. There are no explicit instructions on how they should be treated, but all the staff know what a red blanket means. Such patients are offered penthouse patient suites with gourmet food, luxury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/110315_1315_WhatItsLike1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13244,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13241\/revisions\/13244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}