I went to no less than 20 doctors or nurses in the space of 2 weeks
Not one doctor mentioned anything about quitting or being short-staffed.
This likely comes down to self selection. You were in Idaho, I in Jackson. Also, relatively-rural Driggs versus denser Boise having different rates of spare hospital capacity as well as vaccination. (Or seeing a doctor at their office versus off duty.) Given Idaho was flirting with crisis standards of care, I think it’s objective to say they have a problem.
But not ill. Thanks for your concern.
One of the doctors was an ophthalmologist. Did the full vision test while at it. I was not driving - mostly doing uber to get around.
Made the mistake accepting the eye drops they often do for vision testing.
My phone was a complete blur after the drops.
Yes...I had a few more appts that day.
Trying to get around or even something as basic as calling was hard. Now imagine having to fill out online forms on mobile. Nightmare
In quiet desperation, i tried to turn on the accessibility settings on my android.
The phone suddenly started parroting loudly YOU ARE NOW USING ACCESSIBILITY SETTINGS PLEASE CONFIRM in the middle of a quiet waiting room.
The 3 hours that followed where the most vulnerable and humbling of my life.
Percentage of 65+ people in Wyoming with at least one covid vaccine dose: 89.2%.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-trac...
There's not much they can do for a patient once that patient is admitted to the ICU.
Hospitals should have been setting up Covid wards, or tents. The hospital had enough time. Other than intubation there's not much. I guess if you are important enough you get those coveted antibodies that were donated, or blood thinning drugs if you have blood clots in your lungs.
I've never met a doctor who quit over ethics. I've seen many who quit over ego disutes, or pay.
In medicine there's something called Professional Deniability. American doctors gave it in spades.
I'm all for getting the idiots vaccinated, but don't buy the caring doctor quitting because he/she has a moral dilemma.
(I think American doctors are good, but caring no. Ethical just enough to keep them out of a Malpractise suit.)
They have, at least where I am. As demand goes up, they've even shut down whole clinics to reserve them for COVID patients.
> The hospital had enough time.
They definitely did not have enough time to train and hire new nurses and doctors.
They are not quitting out of ethics, ego or pay. They are quitting because they are overworked (more patients per doctor), and putting their own lives at risk because people made a choice not to get vaccinated.
didn't this happen basically everywhere already, and most if not all of ended up being unneeded at the time? our local civic center converted into a temporary emergency covid care facility months ago and it was never used, so they shut it down. now the local healthcare corporation CEO is claiming the ICUs are full again. well if that's truly the case, we could easily set up the emergency care facility again, our mayor and governor have shown they're more than willing to help when the situation arises. so, at least here in my neck of the woods, something doesn't add up.
Did you ask them if they treat obese people the same way?
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-...
While we're at it since you seem to be really into some weird sort of eugenics mindset why don't you let us all know whether drug addicts should get treated? You might wanna tread carefully on this authoritarian attitude you've got going. You're treading a very fine line deciding who's worthy of treatment and who's not.
I do not want a medical system that gets to pass judgement on who they're going to administer treatment to. That's absolutely horrifying. These nurses can vent all they want but the moment they suggest they're not going to do everything they can to save people they should be relieved of their jobs.
I’m morbidly curious what leads you to say that.
But wait are you saying people should be able to make their on decisions? Obesity effects only a single person. Nope obesity is transmissible. I've seen too many couples where 1 is skinny and the other is obese or overweight. They both become overweight.
Pandemics come and go. We might as well use fear to pass policies now like we did after 9/11
Was in Jackson Hole for Labor Day weekend. They border Idaho, whose voluntarily unvaccinated have filled its hospitals. In four days I met as many nurses and one doctor who quit out of frustration. They could no longer empathise with their patients, each describing a visceral anger at tending to ICUs of COVID patients, all unvaccinated.