After a Michigan doctor wrote about combative COVID-19 patients, most of them died
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...atients-denying-covid-19-diagnosis-dismissing
Since a Michigan doctor penned a Facebook post earlier this month detailing the aggressive and combative responses he has faced from eight patients seriously ill with COVID-19, six of those patients have died.
On Sept. 11, Michigan pulmonologist Matthew Trunsky listed eight incidents in the preceding two days in which patients declined to heed his medical advice. The post has so far received nearly 3,000 engagements and has been shared more than 1,400 times.
In an interview with
The Washington Post published Friday, Trunsky said six of the eight patients he mentioned in his Facebook post have since died.
“We are physically tired as a whole, me included, and we are emotionally exhausted," he said. "I don’t think a week goes by that I don’t see someone pass away."
In his Facebook post, Trunsky mentioned one patient who told him he was "too healthy. I don’t have Covid. I’m fine" when the patient was actually "fighting for his life."
Various patients demanded medications that have not been approved for treating COVID-19 such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
Another patient told Trunsky, "I’d rather die [than] take the vaccine," to which he responded in his post by writing, "You may get your wish."
Trunsky said the wife of one patient who had died of COVID-19 told him, "I would never feel comfortable recommending the vaccine for family and friends."
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