It seems to me there are 1 of 2 possible scenarios playing out with Slob's current medical crisis. From what most of us are assuming, the Familglia knew Fatso had something that looks/sounds superficially bad but was ultimately harmless due to his earlier hospital stay for the "toe injury," correct? Then either (a.) he's basically ok, but they're bringing on all this tragic "deathbed/cancer" talk, and wallowing in it for propaganda purposes, which has all sorts of benefits for them, i.e. Fatty gets to withdraw from a race that was almost certain of resulting in a humiliating defeat and into safer Ward 2 waters (or so the Fords assume as regards the latter), the family name brand is kept alive (which is the real goal here), as is Thug's political ambitions for the future (as, again, the Fords assume), and if the police approach the family with any impertinent questions in the near furutre, they can screech, "Leave us alone! Wobbie's on his deathbed! Persecution! Waaaaaahhhh!"
Or (b.) Slob's little problem is turning out to be more serious than they'd expected, but they're still exploiting it for everything it's worth because that's what the Fords do. And all the benefits I list above are still in effect, moreso in fact since his condition is worse than they thought. And what's the point of being seriously ill if you can't use it for personal gain?
But here's my question: Any reasonably respectable medical care facility is required to respect their patients' privacy and keep their confidentiallity. That Mt. Sinai would be expected to do so goes without saying. But isn't that a two way street? If the patient in question and his family are misbehaving in the most grotesque fashion, operating in obvious bad faith, being self-serving as hell and dragging the facility and its reputation into their own personal media circus in the process, at some point wouldn't the hospital have to expose all that, purely in self defense? We're not talking about some fly-by-night operation like Greenstone. If we know anything about the Fords, it's that they'll continue to push the envelope as far as they can, just to see what they can away with.
