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First of all.. RIP Pioneer. Thank you for your service to humanity. > The hospital said it had “no indication that it was the result of his recent transplant.
by maerF0x0 2y ago
First of all..
RIP Pioneer. Thank you for your service to humanity.
> The hospital said it had “no indication that it was the result of his recent transplant.”
A major issue, at least in Canada, is that the system will let you get too sick to recover before helping you. There are times when a healthy person enters the queue, and doesn't get fast-tracked / called upon until their health begins to fail severely.
- morkalork 2y agoThe cases in Canada are mind bogglingly frustrating, such as a woman ending up with an amputation after getting extreme bed sores while in care. If you think rugular movement and care from nurses to prevent that was too expensive, how does that compare to a whole operation and following recovery? Talk about penny wise and pound foolish.
- sealeck 2y agoThis is an extremely general problem which I think comes down to temporal biases in the human mind and a kind of survivorship bias.
- DontchaKnowit 2y agoHuh? What do you mean by that. The problem is poor healthcare...
- worik 2y ago> The problem is poor healthcare Yes. But most healthcare is terrific and supplied by dedicated professionals working in systems and institutions of variable quality. But the bad outcomes are what we notice. If it bleeds it leads
- olalonde 2y agoSomeone recently died because of this: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/quadriplegic-quebec-man-chooses-assisted-080000543.html https://ca.news.yahoo.com/quadriplegic-quebec-man-chooses-as...
- DontchaKnowit 2y agoIts not just Canada. Healthcare in small town USA is godawful. Just had a friend die after months and mobths if doctirs visits where ghey just kicked the can down the road. Then ended up in the hospital. Then multi organ failure. Then, finally, a correct diagnoses. A treatable fungal infection. Died shortly after the diagnosis. Happens every day.
- skissane 2y agoIt is the same thing in Australia. If you live in a major city, or not too far away from one (say an hour or two), you'll probably be fine. If you live 8 hours from the nearest major city, greatly increased odds you will die from easily preventable things because nobody gets around to running basic diagnostic tests until way too late – because there aren't enough medical and nursing staff to manage the patient workload, because specialists aren't available and so less obvious things get missed, etc. There is also a huge culture of cover-up (middle and senior managers try to hide mistakes to avoid lawsuits and to try not to embarrass the politicians in charge of the public health system)
- boppo1 2y ago>coverup Yeah, I'm in the burbs and My neighbor's wife died like this. They gave her something obviously wrong, (some thick orange drink iirc?) and when they questioned it the tech insisted it was necessary for a diagnostic of some sort. According to my neighbor, she went very south about 2-3 minutes after consuming it and was dead in a couple hours. He is unable to get any documentation from the hospital about what the substance was, who ordered it, etc. This was 2ish years ago.
- DontchaKnowit 2y agoThe hospital is absolutely required to provide that information and if they cannot in a timely manner (like 2 months iirc? Been a while since I worked for an EHR) they are subject to very hefty fines and basically paint a big red malpractice lawsuit target on their head. Hope your neighbor went after them.