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“Patient with symptoms tells you they have been skiing in northern Italy.”
- monkeydreams 7y agoThis raises interesting questions. What happens when the slow-moving mass of protocol-based medicine is struck by a high-velocity pandemic? How are governments, insurance companies, etc, able to update their lookup tables, codesets, etc, fast enough to allow clinicians to have the authority to act appropriately to save a patient's life? I think we're about to find out.
- rasz 7y agoPolish prime minister just said there are two labs ready ... while hospitals are sending samples to Switzerland. Health minister ensures full monitoring of incoming travelers ... while nobody even measures temperatures of people disembarking planes from China (direct China air connection is still open), nor Italy. Chief Sanitary Inspector popped in TV yesterday proclaiming ordinary flu is more dangerous. AMA with staff of one of the biggest capital hospitals: no procedures ready, no PPE, about 70 empty beds for 2 million population. Full denial.