UK DHS: Elderly Patients Denied Hospital Beds
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Maybe the elderly should self-identify as transgender and sue the hospital over discrimination. It is odd how some forms of discrimination are tolerated and other forms such as accidentally using the wrong pronoun in some parts of the world get people in real trouble.
They're heroes that wanted to save the economy by not believing fake news and sacrificing themselves. What's the problem w/granting them martyrdom?
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/04/0...navirus-173-infected-1-hospitalized-0-deaths/
and Iceland data are very interesting as well
and Iceland data are very interesting as well
I liked this because it was a funny hot take. However, you're not correct about this being discrimination.
In emergency triage your age and health have a lot to do with whether you are expectant or saveable. When there is a mass casualty situation (such as a disaster, attack on an FOB or something, or a virus like this one, etc) people are classed into how resource intense maintaining their survival will be. In these situations, the elderly and chronically ill will be the last to get help because you can save more lives by taking the resources you'd use there and help people who aren't as sick. When it comes to distributing consumable or limited quantity medical equipment the people who are more likely to come out of it alive will be given priority. This necessarily excludes the frail.
It's an unfortunate consequence of overloaded hospitals and one of the reasons the casualty rate of a virus skyrockets under extreme hospital load. It is also the reason I really strongly dislike all of the conspiracy theory on this site about the virus. For every young person who goes out and exposes themselves to this an elderly or chronically ill person will likely die - either through infection or be denied a bed due to the ignorance of the very people the hospital will likely help in a mass casualty situation.
Do everyone a favor and stay inside. The more beds the hospitals have open, the more people can get treatment when they need it.
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It is triage because socialized medical care and semi- socialized medical care fail to provide the resources and incentives to prevent untimely deaths.
Pretty sure they are doing the same triage in the NYC at the moment and the US medicine is far from socialized. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
First, many think the illness is faked, other problems making them sick (not covid-19) and now they're being denied a hospital bed when they become ill.
Seems like some that say these people are just old and its time for them to go on to the next life...its being forced upon them.
wrbtrader
yeah, they've got DNR orders on emergency calls already
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisett...esuscitate-policies-for-coronavirus-patients/
https://www.pix11.com/news/coronavi...-as-nyc-hospitals-fill-with-covid-19-patients
the lovely American healthcare system:
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/covid-ny-hospital-medicaid/