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The trauma center emergency room in my state is diverting patients to less-capable facilities. Elective surgeries (such as for cancer and other life-threatening
by runako 5y ago
The trauma center emergency room in my state is diverting patients to less-capable facilities. Elective surgeries (such as for cancer and other life-threatening conditions) are being cancelled. All of this is happening in states representing perhaps a third of the US population.
Not being able to get lifesaving cancer removal surgery is the state of affairs that people colloquially mean when say a medical system is "collapsing."
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> Not being able to get lifesaving cancer removal surgery is the state of affairs that people colloquially mean when say a medical system is "collapsing." Rural medical systems in places with low vaccination rates are collapsing. The American health system, broadly, is not. Being relocated to a smaller hospital is not good; collapse is being denied altogether. (EDIT: Was not aware that parts of the country are, in fact, seeing collapse.)
- eropple 5y ago> collapse is being denied altogether Yeah, that's happening too. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-us-hospital-icu-bed-shortage-veteran-dies-treatable-illness/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-us-hospital-icu-bed-short... Bellville is 30 miles outside of Houston. It's not "rural".
- runako 5y agoI live in one of the top 10 largest American cities (our metro population is, roughly, larger than all European cities except Moscow and London). > Being relocated to a smaller hospital is not good The rural hospitals in our state have effectively been in collapse for months, using our major metro city hospitals as a backstop. There is no relocation to smaller hospitals, there is only cancellation of lifesaving treatments. The backstop has failed. I am aware of this happening in other very large cities in America as well.