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There are a number of people who didn't get the care they needed because surgeries for critical things like removing rotting teeth or even some heart surgery we
by djsumdog 6y ago
There are a number of people who didn't get the care they needed because surgeries for critical things like removing rotting teeth or even some heart surgery were marked as non-critical. They should have kept hospitals running, reprioritized their current schedules, and started cancelling once they saw the influx.
The way this was executed was terrible. The whole point was that hospitals didn't get overloaded so people with critical needs can get treated. It's the absolute definition of irony that cancelling everything had the exact same effect.
- ceejayoz 6y ago> cancelling once they saw the influx Incubation periods and exponential growth mean by the time you see the influx, it's potentially already too late to avoid becoming overwhelmed.
- djsumdog 6y agoThe priorities all major surgeries and try to work with patients to push off the ones in terms of severity. That way hospital could at least keep taking people. If they have to cancel everyone in a week; that's still better than not taking anything at all right now (and being overloaded this/next months as everyone comes in needing things)