In the days after the meeting, Krzykowski recalls thinking that “sabotaging” was “a pretty strong word—a loaded word.” Mallinckrodt was known to be on friendly terms with some of the patients in the T.C.U., and Krzykowski felt that he had become too aligned with the inmates—“too much on their side.” She told me, “I thought he’d become an advocate—you know, a hug-a-thug.”
There’s a name for this: Stereotype threat. You want people to act against their interests, ethics, or personality? Tell them they’re living up to a stereotype.
Reached by phone, Perez declined to comment, telling me that I could direct any questions to Wexford Health Sources, the private contractor that now provides mental-health services at Dade.
If we’re going to have these private contractors at all, then the law should send CEOs to jail before anyone else.
Wexford, too, declined to comment.
This should not be allowed. If you’re a private institution receiving public funds doing a job that requires you to be fucking accountable, then you don’t get to run a PR department.
Mission a-fucking-ccomplished.
