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Doctors should be allowed to give priority to vaccinated patients

6 points by hncurious 5y ago

throwawayboise 5y ago
Doctors triage patients all the time. The critera are (broadly) how grave is the patient's condition and how likely is it we can help. Beyond that, I'm not sure that any individual decisions or motivations of the patient are of any relevance. Do we want a world where people who don't seek early treatment for any variety of conditions (addiction, mental health, obesity, even cancer, etc) or engage in risky behavior (e.g. many sports) go to the back of the line when they become seriously ill or injured?
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_red 5y ago
Doctors should be able to put fat people on much lower priority.
- tomohawk 5y ago
  CDC study finds about 78% of people hospitalized for Covid were overweight or obese https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughly-78percent-of-people-hospitalized-were-overweight-or-obese.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughl...
  - pbaka 5y ago
    I have an idea for a new research paper : On the intersectionality of pre-existing conditions, previous prophylactic treatments in the priorisation of treatment, or how to redefine the Hyppocratic oath through Hegelian dialectics.
kaminar 5y ago
Dox her.
raxxorrax 5y ago
That public health insurance doesn't seem to work in the US is seen in arguments like this, although the article is for generating clicks of course.
Proven 5y ago
Bullshit opinion. 1) Patients should be allowed to specify what treatment they prefer, but they can't. 2) If government forces people to buy state healthcare, it has to provide equal service to all. If you want to discriminate against patients, stop forcing them to spend their healthcare money on government-affiliated healthcare system. What doctors in private hospitals that don't participate in those schemas decide is no one's business and I wouldn't give a crap if they boycotted me - I'd just take my money and go across the street.
AndrewBissell 5y ago
Worth noting that the "emergency physician" the Washington Post quotes in this op-ed works at CIA front In-Q-Tel: https://twitter.com/LLinecook/status/1434245760455954434 https://twitter.com/LLinecook/status/1434245760455954434
haspoken 5y ago
https://archive.is/jaTDE https://archive.is/jaTDE

6 points by hncurious 5y ago

Doctors triage patients all the time. The critera are (broadly) how grave is the patient's condition and how likely is it we can help. Beyond that, I'm not sure that any individual decisions or motivations of the patient are of any relevance. Do we want a world where people who don't seek early treatment for any variety of conditions (addiction, mental health, obesity, even cancer, etc) or engage in risky behavior (e.g. many sports) go to the back of the line when they become seriously ill or injured?

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_red 5y ago

Doctors should be able to put fat people on much lower priority.

tomohawk 5y ago
CDC study finds about 78% of people hospitalized for Covid were overweight or obese https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughly-78percent-of-people-hospitalized-were-overweight-or-obese.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughl...
- pbaka 5y ago
  I have an idea for a new research paper : On the intersectionality of pre-existing conditions, previous prophylactic treatments in the priorisation of treatment, or how to redefine the Hyppocratic oath through Hegelian dialectics.

kaminar 5y ago

Dox her.

raxxorrax 5y ago

That public health insurance doesn't seem to work in the US is seen in arguments like this, although the article is for generating clicks of course.

Proven 5y ago

Bullshit opinion. 1) Patients should be allowed to specify what treatment they prefer, but they can't. 2) If government forces people to buy state healthcare, it has to provide equal service to all. If you want to discriminate against patients, stop forcing them to spend their healthcare money on government-affiliated healthcare system. What doctors in private hospitals that don't participate in those schemas decide is no one's business and I wouldn't give a crap if they boycotted me - I'd just take my money and go across the street.

AndrewBissell 5y ago

Worth noting that the "emergency physician" the Washington Post quotes in this op-ed works at CIA front In-Q-Tel: https://twitter.com/LLinecook/status/1434245760455954434 https://twitter.com/LLinecook/status/1434245760455954434

haspoken 5y ago

https://archive.is/jaTDE https://archive.is/jaTDE