[ABANDONED] Welp, Late Help

[Megistos]

Welp, Late Help

[desc] Yesterday, famous journalist @@RANDOMNAMEMALE(1)@@, known to be a huge supporter of your party, died of a heart attack. However, there are spread rumours that the medical staff sent to help him purposefully arrived late due to being a supporter of the opposition party.

[option] "This is an absolute disgrace, not only to @@RANDOMNAMEMALE(1)@@'s family, but also to all his supporters." States his advisor, @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Medical staff arriving late, because they were supporters of the opposition party? Shameful. If this is the quality of doctors in @@NAME@@, trust me, we're doomed. Make sure all doctors are neutral politically, so that these incidents don't happen again."
[result] @@DENONYMADJECTIVE@@ medical staff have to be in multiple places at a time

[option] "We have preferences, y'know." Casually replies @@RANDOMFEMALENAME@@, one of the doctors sent to save @@RANDOMNAMEMALE(1)@@ "One time, he even insulted the hospital we worked with, saying that it was a 'dirty and biased hospital'. Yeah, we're supposed to come as quickly as possible, but we still had to finish up with our current patients. Of course, just giving you a little tip on who to support." She gives you a little wink and leaves.
[result] Hospitals now host political debates

[option] "What even brought up this mess in the first place? Hospitals and a family who didn't know how to perform medical operations." Brings up your Minister of Creative Solutions, @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Instead of neutralizing all doctors, or allowing doctors to finish up with their current patients before moving to priority operations, let's ban the thing that caused this chaos: hospitals. Now I'm not saying to just do that, make sure each family in @@NAME@@ has a family member who knows how to carry out medical operations - that way everyone will be safe.
[result] The saying in @@NAME@@ is that 'every family fend for themselves'

[Terrabod]

Ok, so I have a couple of issues with this.

When you're talking about emergency services being deliberately delayed, that means potentially a dozen or so people all conspired together against you to kill that journalist. Even if you take it to mean the people in the ambulance took a long diversion to get to the scene, that's still two or more different people that disagree with your politics enough to want to kill someone that isn't you. And hospital workers aren't just any 'people' with opinions - they do the job because they care more about saving lives than any other factor, even if the patient is a serial killer (never mind just someone who supports a different party). I just don't buy it.

Even if you accept the above scenario as reasonable, isn't the only course of action to discipline the offending workers (even to the point of stripping them of their medical licenses or charging them for the death of the journalist)? Option 1 wastes money on training medical staff to be politically neutral, which they already are, and option 2 reads like the crazy authoritarian option of a different issue.

[Megistos]

Ok, so I have a couple of issues with this.

When you're talking about emergency services being deliberately delayed, that means potentially a dozen or so people all conspired together against you to kill that journalist. Even if you take it to mean the people in the ambulance took a long diversion to get to the scene, that's still two or more different people that disagree with your politics enough to want to kill someone that isn't you. And hospital workers aren't just any 'people' with opinions - they do the job because they care more about saving lives than any other factor, even if the patient is a serial killer (never mind just someone who supports a different party). I just don't buy it.

Even if you accept the above scenario as reasonable, isn't the only course of action to discipline the offending workers (even to the point of stripping them of their medical licenses or charging them for the death of the journalist)? Option 1 wastes money on training medical staff to be politically neutral, which they already are, and option 2 reads like the crazy authoritarian option of a different issue.

Will change the political part, but for the most part I don't know how.

[Terrabod]

Will change the political part, but for the most part I don't know how.

I'm struggling with the premise itself here, but maybe someone else can offer their advice. Maybe I'm missing something.

[Baggieland]

I have to agree with Terrabod here; the whole premise... I just don't buy it.

Even after a terrorist attack, the doctors, nurses and ambulance staff take care of the injured terrorist (maybe they manhandle the terrorist more roughly than other patients - you'll have to ask CWA about that ).

A different issue, though similar, could be this: after Diego Maradona died, his personal doctor was accused of malpractice and blamed for his death. The exact same thing happened when Michael Jackson died. You'll have to do a bit of research to find out exactly what happened to Jackson / Maradona's doctors and what they were accused of. But as these people were mega-icons, that's probably enough of a premise to warrant the government wading in with their two-cents on the matter.

[Megistos]

Thx! I'll try a different premise.

[SherpDaWerp]

Additionally, the premise of "people didn't help <x> due to their political beliefs" has been covered: #839 - "Partisanship Too Far?" Wrongly Asks Opposition

[The Ferret Lands]

Surely one of the options should be the doctors denying purposefully leaving someone to die? The only response from the accused currently is to.... basically confess to the crime?

[Megistos]

Abandoned, I have a better idea than this and I can't really make another draft of this.