Hospitals lost their minds :(

[timewerx]

They're turning away patients with deadlier medical emergencies (like a major stroke) even if they still have plenty of vacant ICU's, ER's (they have reserved these for Covid patients)

I have personally witnessed these first hand

Have they lost their minds or have I??

I feel like I woke up to a different planet

Nurse kiddo went back to me with

 

[High Fidelity]

Very reluctant to accept anecdotal evidence.

I don't see this happening in the U.S. where money is 95% of the conversation.

 

[Lost4words]

False. No hospital would turn someone away who had a stroke!

 

[timewerx]

False. No hospital would turn someone away who had a stroke!

Unfortunately, I had to witness it.

I live outside of USA. The hospitals I saw are private because they're the only ones left with vacant ICUs, I guess they can make their own rules.

Those nationalized hospitals are totally full.

It's totally messed up.

 

[Aldebaran]

Unfortunately, I had to witness it.

I live outside of USA. The hospitals I saw are private because they're the only ones left with vacant ICUs, I guess they can make their own rules.

Those nationalized hospitals are totally full.

It's totally messed up.

I live in an area that has several major hospitals and they put a stop to all elective procedures at the beginning of the lockdowns. Since then, we've had very few cases (less than 30) in an area of about 80,000 people, and no deaths. 20 have recovered completely already. As a result, half of the hospital staff has been furloughed.
So much for the hospitals being "overwhelmed".

Meanwhile, we remain on lock-down for another month.

 

[timewerx]

I live in an area that has several major hospitals and they put a stop to all elective procedures at the beginning of the lockdowns. Since then, we've had very few cases (less than 30) in an area of about 80,000 people, and no deaths. 20 have recovered completely already. As a result, half of the hospital staff has been furloughed.
So much for the hospitals being "overwhelmed".

Meanwhile, we remain on lock-down for another month.

Sounds okay enough to me.

In our case, the private hospitals are "overwhelmed" with empty beds reserved for Covid patients that are yet to arrive, but turning away everybody else, unless they had covid. It's been like that for many weeks. Utterly stupid, I think.

"You cannot get admitted to the hospital unless you have Covid on the Forehead or on the Right Arm". Fascist garbage.

 

[Caliban]

They're turning away patients with deadlier medical emergencies (like a major stroke) even if they still have plenty of vacant ICU's, ER's (they have reserved these for Covid patients)

I have personally witnessed these first hand

Have they lost their minds or have I??

I feel like I woke up to a different planet

Nurse kiddo went back to me with

Many of the hospitals in California are canceling or rescheduling elective procedures. These are the profit center of nearly every hospital. And, since hospitals are dangerously low of proper PPE, only essential services are approved. Emergent services are always in place. There is an entire logistical side to the reason hospitals have empty beds which most people are quite unfamiliar with. These hospitals are loosing millions of dollars a month right now.