Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
by greedo on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:27AM
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Hmm, who provides care at a hospital? Wow, RNs and MDs. Do you expect a janitor to intubate you? Increasing hospital capacity is hard, expensive and takes time.
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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
by qwerty456127 on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:40PM
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I don't need a person with a doctorate degree to treat me. I just need a person who has a reasonable understanding of how does a human body work and a reasonable skill of doing particular medical procedures.
Doctors generally don't have doctorate degrees. That's a Ph.D which is a doctor of philosophy degree. A physician becomes a doctor by earning degrees as an M.D., doctor of medicine, or D.O., doctor of osteopathic medicine.
What you're describing is either an MD, a NP, or a traditional nurse/specialist.
Intubation procedures are often performed by respiratory therapists.
Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
by HarryHirsch on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:00AM
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You go first! We'll give you 6 weeks training, and then you can go work in intensive care around infectious patients.
You seem to be ignorant about health care. Respiratory therapists have at least 2 years of training.