re: #97 karmic_inquisitor

She actually contracts out to several hospitals. She gets more money when the patient pays and less (or sometimes none) when they don’t.

It is hard for hospitals to staff trauma in San Jose (where she does this) so that is the niche she has established for herself. No steady paycheck, really. And she gets sued all the time - usually by gang bangers who can’t return to “productive lives” after she fixes up their gunshot wounds. I shit you not.

Insurance companies and hospitals will settle, it’s cheaper to pay out a couple hundred thou, than to spend a million or two to win the case in court.