... is already here with Flea-GATE showing people that it pays (literally!) to be careful. The question only is how far would it go.

What I wanted to highlight here, is chilling effect or not, that particular hospital already lost, because the things they would rather keep quiet turned into a national story. If they back their critic in the corner he'd have nothing to lose.

Finally, a lot depends on jurisdiction. Elected local judges in places like Texas might be likely to swat a critic, especially when the state does not have an Anti-SLAPP law. So watch out in Texas but be at ease in California or Florida.

First off let me tell you , this hospital has got to be bay far one of the worst in the country.  Secondly, I have been a patient, have known patients and lived in that town for years. I have never ever been treated right or been given auality service by this hospital. The force you to see a nurse prac. Make you sit in the waiting room for hours on end no matter what your condition. I was miscarrying my baby , bleeding all over and all the triage nurse said to me after waiting for her to see me 4 hours was "well just wait because if you are miscarrying there is nothing we can do for you, sit down!"  I was mortifed and cried the rest of the time there.

My daughter has a horrible life threatening illness called panhypopituitarism, I take her in for a 102 degree fever which could kill her and we end up waiting for 5 hours in the waiting room.

They took her temperature, the triage nurse tried to hide it from me , my brother who was with me saw him write down 99.7 in the computer. We called him on it and all he could do was stutter, we walked out and went to Sulpher Springs.

That same visit an 3 month old infant walked in with 105 fever,  they did the same to them, just made them wait, the child could have died from a fever like that or suffered brina damage.  Another one during that visit was a man brought in for a heart attack. Again, they made him wait in the ER. He passed out 3 times, still waiting!

It took them 2 hours to take the information from the front counter where everyone could see it. They had a stack of social security numbers sitting on the counter with no nurse in site to take them. This is something according to heppa that should not be sitting there! Anyone could have taken anyones identity right there. And they do it all the time.

My MIL went into this hospital due to a mild stroke. They admitted her without insurance for 2 days. During that 2 days they ran NO TESTS , she just sat in a room and had a nurse come in every now and then to ask how she was. She left the hospital with a 25,000 dollar bill, FOR NOTHING! THEY DID NOTHING! She asked for an itemized statement to see where the cost went, they refused. After a month of telling them it was her right they mailed her one that was unreadable. Every other item was listed as "service". What TYPE OF SERVICE?

I walked out on my last visit before we ever saw a DR and was ever taken back. And I plan on contacting my insurance company to see if they try to charge us, if they do, I am suing the heck out of them.

I took my child in because he was having asthma problems and was breathing different from what I'm use too. So they got him in within 10 minutes, took blood and gave him some steroids. We didn't stay long because they were ready to figure out what was wrong with my baby.
A few years ago I would have complain about the Hospital but now it is changing for the good.
But they could hire more help instead of making everyone in the hospital work 12 hours. They should quit charging people for the visit and then the doctor charges more than what they are worth since they are not the ones doing all the work.

There are a lot of people sick and they think people should stop everything they're doing to get to them. Some things can wait but people go to the emergency room anyway. So get a doctor and quit being a big baby.