Steward Health Care System

Steward Health is trying to force its patients to use its own hospitals — in this case to force Arlignton residents to go to St. Elizabeth in Brighton! (huh?!?) This goes directly against the modern variants of the Hippocratic oath: «The health of my patient will be my first consideration;». All doctors pledge this, but the doctors of Steward Health are blatantly accepting financial remuneration to direct patients not to the providers that they think are best, but the providers that are part of the Steward Health for-​profit hospital system. In my own experience they threw a fit that I wanted to go to the Joslin center for diabetes care rather than St. Elizabeth. They were passive-​aggressive in delaying and obstructing the referral without telling me, and I very nearly ended up in a self pay situation because of it. They had no problem with me seeing a specialist mind you, it just had to be *THEIR* specialist in order to maximize profits and create a monopoly in my health care. You cannot trust this practice to provide you the best medical care, IMHO they put the profit of the Steward group first.