Part of the Job. Make the Call.
This looks like combat triage.
Coronavirus: The young doctors being asked to play god
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52137160
"The most anxiety I have is around ventilator allocation. Seeing people die is not the issue. We're trained to deal with death. Nor is it the volume of people dying. The issue is giving up on people we wouldn't normally give up on." She described a patient being brought in from an old people's home. He was already on a ventilator - and was "chronically vent dependent". His prospects were never great. But all she could see before her was the ventilator - and not the patient.
"When he came in we were so desperate for vents," she told me, "all I wanted to do was get the ventilator off him. I wanted to get that vent off him to allow it to go to someone else."
Playing god is not what this young woman thought she would be doing at this stage in her career.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Part of the Job. Make the Call.
Earl (04-03-2020), Truth Detector (04-03-2020)
Earl (04-03-2020)
Frank Apisa (04-02-2020), ThatOwlWoman (04-03-2020), Trumpet (04-05-2020)
Earl (04-03-2020), Truth Detector (04-03-2020)
Ever hear of a "certificate of need"? You need to get permission from GovCo to build a hospital or even purchase certain equipment. A doctor or group of doctors has to prove to the government that these things are needed. The profit motive that allows competition to increase supply and drive costs down isn't allowed. You and your libs friends wanted GovCo control, and you got it.
Callinectes (04-02-2020), Earl (04-03-2020), Truth Detector (04-03-2020)
Yeah...if two people came in and only one ventilator was available.
But this was a guy ON A VENTILATOR...a guy who had been on it BEFORE coming into hospital.
Do you think it appropriate to just take it from him...and give it to someone else?
And do you think it appropriate to give the power to do that to a doctor...with no restrictions?
What if the second patient is the doctor's brother?
This is a very nebulous area, Jack. Time for the powers that be...to do some serious thinking.
ON HIS WORST DAY, JOE BIDEN IS A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN TRUMP WAS ON HIS BEST DAY!
From the article: Half of the patients are undocumented, and don't speak English - they work in restaurants and are hotel chambermaids. They are not "plugged in". The calls for social distancing have passed them by.
Does anyone believe this for a second? I'm calling BS on that.
Every life matters
Earl (04-03-2020), Truth Detector (04-03-2020)
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