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People use the word 'collapse' to predict problems in healthcare, but then we never see it happen, as health systems don't 'collapse' - medical professionals ju

• DanBC 6y ago
  > People use the word 'collapse' to predict problems in healthcare, but then we never see it happen, as health systems don't 'collapse' - medical professionals just work in increasingly degraded conditions. I don't get it. We do see problems in healthcare. The excess mortality we're seeing at the moment is a combination of deaths directly caused by covid, but also deaths caused by reduced access to healthcare. When we change long-established norms (eg 1:1 nurse:patient ratios) this is system collapse.
  • Filligree 6y ago
    It's just not what people think of, when they hear the word "collapse". The average person expects a single dramatic event, and that never happens.
    • CodeGlitch 6y ago
      Here's how I think of "collapse": you suffer some serious injury or illness, you call for an ambulance and told that none are available. You get a friend to drive you to the nearest A&E department to be told to come back tomorrow as there's no room left. You drive to another to be told the same. This is all entirely possible in 2020 to 1000s of people, and I still wonder why people think lockdowns are a bad idea.
      • bencollier49 6y ago
        The problem is with the strength of the word "collapse", which to most minds implies sudden and utter ruin.