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With covid, many hospitals have locked down, preventing family members from entering to advocate for their family members who are there. To gain access, some h
by tomohawk 6y ago
With covid, many hospitals have locked down, preventing family members from entering to advocate for their family members who are there. To gain access, some hospital require you be tested, and then this test has to be documented properly so that you can get in, which takes days.
- mindslight 6y agoIf you think hospitals are bad, try inpatient rehabs. Full lock down, through-window visits after approval for an appointment where they take your temperature etc, limited to once per week. Covid has encouraged a bit of giving-understanding, but for the most part it has just exacerbated the existing bad incentives and draconian top-down policy regimes. None of these places welcome oversight, for the reasons spelled out by the article. FWIW a close relative with multiple comorbidities got Covid from a hospital, likely when they decided it was prudent to cycle three different roommates through their room in as many days. Then the hospital wanted to discharge them when they were still infectious! Hospital policies are based around ass-covering and not actually stopping the spread. Never got any calls from contact tracing either. Thankfully my relative ended up beating it.