Where to begin? After reading the Feb. 7 Maine Sunday Telegram interview with MaineHealth CEO Bill Caron, and learning Maine’s largest health care provider has vaccinated its 22,000 employees, including office, remote and out-of-state workers, while thousands of elderly and compromised Mainers wait for the vaccination, I am disgusted.
Mr. Caron told columnist Bill Nemitz, “We’re protecting infrastructure.” Guess what, patients are the main component of MaineHealth’s infrastructure. Without patients, there would be no MaineHealth. That Mr. Caron did not once reference patients and the unprecedented pandemic dangers that we, his “customers,” face is both disappointing and infuriating. I did not discern one note of empathy or concern for MaineHealth patients waiting for the COVID vaccine.
Did MaineHealth never consider an alternative approach? Perhaps vaccinate a percentage (25 percent) of all non-essential workers. Share the rest with eligible patients, of whom I am one, still waiting.
If I did not hold my longtime physician in high regard, I would dump MaineHealth in a heartbeat — pun intended. I hope that Mr. Caron’s successor is better schooled in how to talk to his own public.
It is said Mr. Caron will retire this year. He cannot leave soon enough.
Cynthia Castleman
Westbrook
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