Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ...
by ALittleLight on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:32AM
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Why would we require either a nursing or a doctor degree? I do not understand why we didn't just train a crop of "covid specialists" who could handle caring for covid positive people and recognizing when they needed help from the real medical staff. Doing something like this I feel we could have easily and quickly increased medical capacity as much as needed for covid.
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Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ...
by ceejayoz on Sunday January 09, 2022 @02:10PM
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> I do not understand why we didn't just train a crop of "covid specialists"...
Who'd be doing a wide variety of nurse/doctor tasks?
Vented ICU patients are complicated. They need more than a babysitter.
Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ...
by mbg721 on Sunday January 09, 2022 @05:11PM
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Most COVID patients even in hospitals aren't vented ICU ones, are they? While I get that you can't just throw money and catch doctors, is a fully credentialed doctor or nurse really necessary for every single task that could save a life in this kind of emergency situation?