Lenox Hill Hospital: Baby On Bored

News Item: Entertainment industry superstar couple pay $1 Million + for the privilege of having their hospital of choice create a personal and private birthing experience.  As a result of poor planning and foresight, other parents are separated from their newborns by over-eager security guards and said parents are given distinctly second-class citizen status while the rich couple tweet about their blessed event, in apparent ignorance of the ill-will they created.  See the link below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/nyregion/after-birth-by-beyonce-patients-protest-celebrity-security-at-lenox-hill-hospital.html?hp 

 Real New Yorkers know and respect Manhattan’s Lenox Hill Hospital, and consider New Jersey’s Beyonce Knowles and Brooklyn’s Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) one of our own.  This episode, however, is positioned at the confluence of several social  hot-buttons.  Consider:

  • 1 percenters flex their muscle: A couple of very rich people fork over big bucks and get the royal treatment — at the expense of mere mortals (without the means of hijacking an entire department for a weekend);
  • Lack of Transparency: Making matters worse, the hospital did not make it clear to other patients (worried parents and their newborns) what was happening;
  • Lack of Consideration: Meanwhile, proud papa Carter tweets proudly about his child (as one might) but without any apparent concern for the situation that was created.

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There are many Very Important People in New York City and, from time to time, some of them have to go to the hospital.  Heads of State, Leading Minds, Entertainment Moguls, Pop-Culture Icons: they all live here and, somehow, this type of situation has not been reported, in my recent memory.

Perhaps a “gee, we’re sorry” from the Carters and from Lenox Hill management is in order. 

Perhaps a nice donation to an appropriate, related, charity is in order.

Perhaps hospitals — in this highly competitive healthcare services marketplace — should consider this episode in their future dealings with VIPs who insist on muscling consideration for other patients to the side, so that their will be done.

Yes, money talks.  But when your money comes from selling your music to the very people you disrespected, be careful.  Be very very careful.

 

 

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Martin Kleinman is a New York City-based writer and blogger. His new collection of short fiction, "When Paris Beckons" will be published later this spring. His second collection, "A Shoebox Full of Money", is available at your favorite online bookseller, as is his first -- "Home Front". Visit http://www.martykleinman.com for details.

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