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Re:Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out... by thinkharderdev on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:26PM (#22752623)
I agree in general, especially on point 1. If it's just an issue of regulations then that is insane.

On the second point I would actually be more sympathetic to their position (though probably not enough to actually ban employees from doing it). Humans are funny and if some people on a unit have better equipment than others it can certainly cause some interpersonal tension that over-stressed hospitals can't deal with right now.

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Re:Hospitals Tell Doctors They’ll Be Fired If They Speak Out... by joshstrange on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @04:13PM (#22753071)
It would be a different story if hospitals were upfront and honest. They are currently being neither.

They should be protecting the people who can actually help save other people even if they can't protect everyone. Should nurses in KY stop wearing masks because nurses in NY are out? I understand you point on "interpersonal tension" but people need to get over it right now and protect themselves in whatever way possible even if that means I walk into a hospital and see a nurse with a bandana over their face (already happening in some hospitals AND part of the CDC "Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Facemasks" [0] -- Read the "HCP use of homemade masks" section)

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/f...

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