South Pole Medevac (2016) (opens in new tab)

That's a curious statement given that NSF has often heavily publicized medical issues researchers have had, including identifying the people involved and their condition, like the doctor(s) who have had to operate on themselves, or people who found out they had cancer while at the station, or the researcher who had a stroke. How did "patient privacy" not apply there? And HIPAA does not apply to anyone except "care providers."

Despite intense pressure, the NSF refused to medevac the stroke patient for two months. But some Lockheed employee gets "sick" and they get a very complex, expensive, dangerous rescue mission? Why?

There was extensive coverage of this medevac operation; NSF provided lots of media and statements, etc...but tightly controlled who was allowed to take photos. Why?

Why is the NSF hiding who the involved parties were, and the source of their injury or illness?

The other question: why did we foot the bill for this? LM had a multi-billion-dollar contract to supply services. If one of their employees needs to be medevac'd out, especially for reasons that won't withstand scrutiny, LM can pay for it themselves...

https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-anarctica-stabbing-bo...