Here in the states, my wife is a physician (pediatric gyn) and she was called into to assist with an elective color-rectal surgery - being new to the hospital and covering. When she got there Monday, she found out that there is no protocol for doctors deciding on their own to do elective surgery during a pandemic -- its up to each unit how "they want" to organize themselves. Money and staying open (profitable) seems to be important drivers for a lack of leadership. Most people here in Bethesda are doing self-quarantining and avoiding going out at all costs as the number of cases has gone from 10K to 50K in a week's time across the country. Now well over 600 have died, many healthcare practitioners. Anyway, being pissed off this entire weekend before watching her go in for this, thinking why would anyone be doing an elective surgery during a pandemic got me going. Then, I heard how the lead surgeon handled this entire situation - cavalierly, jokingly without regard for others.
it makes my blood boil.
She came home Monday night, threw up, migraine type headache and bed-ridden ever since --- other symptoms too which I will not get into in this post. I am so angry, I cannot even begin to share with you all. We have a 4 year old son and we live in a small house we are renting as we adjust to the DC area. Of course, things could be worse at this moment, and I do not want to whinge inappropriately when I look at all of the doctors and nurses that are going unprotected in our health system. But when I heard about the conversation from my wife's MD partners --- saying that they knew of two doctors who were currently/continue to work in the hospital who tested positive for the virus because the hospital would not have had backups.
This type of incompetence is killing people.
And I tell you what, this kind of tragedy need not have happened. This is the worst kind. She's going to get tested tomorrow -- but its too late for transmission issues as our son and I have already been exposed to some degree and we are being told continually that early transmission is much more contagious and dangerous in the early part of transmission -- as the virus' life strength is most potent during transmission.
Sorry to share the personal here... but I am so deeply disgusted I needed to ventilate. Irony ventilate.... I hope I am laughing about this in a week.
Everyone take care... (sorry I posted in the general thread, but I did not know where to post this kind of thing).
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