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Do the hospitals have any obligations in this in terms of scalability and sustainability of their workforce? I understand that adding a doctor or nurse isn't i
by aantix 5y ago
Do the hospitals have any obligations in this in terms of scalability and sustainability of their workforce?
I understand that adding a doctor or nurse isn't immediate.
Just as I understand that if a production system I oversee crashes under load, it may not have been foreseeable.
But if the system is still crashing under load in five years? Ten years? At what point is it my fault?
The U.S. healthcare spending in 2020 was $4.1 trillion. I still see the same 100 ICU beds cited as capacity in our local COVID updates.
- dragontamer 5y ago> But if the system is still crashing under load in five years? Ten years? At what point is it my fault? The Maryland hospital system can support a bit over 10,000 hospitalizations. Over 3000 of those hospitalizations are COVID19 right now, and our cases continue to grow exponentially. ---------- Our hospital systems don't _normally_ get hit with 3000+ cases of a singular disease. Compared to other parts of the country, we have more hospital space, nurses and more, and we're still feeling stressed from all of this. You _cant_ have enough hospital space during a pandemic. You just can't. The disease grows too fast, you get hit with way more cases than you've ever seen in the past 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 years. It doesn't make sense to design a system with 100-years worth of slack. It makes more sense to ask the public to do actions to cut back on hospitalizations during these rare 1-in-a-hundred-year situations.