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I have literally gotten sick. Accident call when I was at a Halloween Party. Walked 3 doors down to get there.
El Camino broadsided, kids were in the back. Trick or treat bags next to the over turned vehicle.
No amount of alcohol helped me that night.
I'm sorry you experienced that. It must have been very difficult.

Do you have PTSD from work? And do you have a support system?
 
I agree.

I could always tell who the new nurses were . . . because during lunch, the veterans were eating lunch while talking about secretions, pus, maggot-infested decubitis from low-end SNF facilities, and colostomy bags.

The new nurses were the ones whom weren't eating and looking pale and/or green around the gills.

I had few issues with this, as I could run on a 4 car pile-up with multiple fatalities, and have spaghetti when I got back to the station.
 
Most of the medications listed have the doses on the bottle, and how often to take. I would hope that diabetics would know how to self administer their own insulin.
I agree with you, without proper training, you shouldn't self administer - but if you have the supplies and a doc or nurse happens to come along, they can help out with it.
You can pick up the book procedures for primary care physicians which goes over cleaning, debriding wounds and suturing.
You also can't do much damage with one bag of IV fluids for dehydration. Its also pretty obvious if you accidently cannulate an artery (spurting blood) instead of a vein.
Only ones here, would really be steroids and antibiotics, but there are protocols you can look up on medical websites (like SCCM, ABIM, AAFP)
famotidine 1 tab and diphenydramine 1 tab for an allergic reaction.

Had a patient I brought down to ICU this week who had COVID, former ICU nurse. She stayed home and treated herself with 100 mg of prednisone instead that she got from a friend.
You just can't solve all of it, but if you are prepared and resourceful and careful, I think it will be ok :)

Doc have you seen this good news Scientists develop insulin that can be kept without refrigeration - The Economic Times
 
I see NYstate is sacking loads of nurses who refused to get vaccinated, Good.

I am guessing you are talking about this:

83,000 hospital workers could be fired under N.Y. vaccine mandate
83,000 hospital workers could be fired under N.Y. vaccine mandate (msn.com)

Why do you think that is? Why do you think 83,000 medical professionals in a democrat state do NOT want to take the vaccine? The democrats like to call people who do not want the vaccine idiots, anti-vaxxers, neanderthals, etc. These are medical professionals who have to work with people who actually have covid, and they DO NOT want the vaccine.
 
My guess is most of the hospital workers aren’t physicians or nurses.
I’ve been looking for exact numbers but I’ve seen it’s mostly techs, assistants.
Does anyone have any data on this?
 
My guess is most of the hospital workers aren’t physicians or nurses.
I’ve been looking for exact numbers but I’ve seen it’s mostly techs, assistants.
Does anyone have any data on this?
I've been getting very, very fed up lately-- if I count--at the stupidity that's at the heart of all of it.

I have actually lost a lot of faith in humans--as a group--because of the consequences of the pandemic.
 
Thanks guys. She fought hard. First time it’s been personal for me so I guess I’m lucky that way.
 
My guess is most of the hospital workers aren’t physicians or nurses.
I’ve been looking for exact numbers but I’ve seen it’s mostly techs, assistants.
Does anyone have any data on this?

Condolences for your friend.

I have a neighbor that is a long time nurse, at a large hospital system, who just quit. She said there are about 20% like her, just in their system. I just read this local news saying 20% of the nurses in Oregon are unvaccinated and do not want to be. I would guess that 20% of nurses for the entire state is in the thousands; probably over ten. Then there are specialists..

Legacy Health workers refusing COVID-19 vaccine prepare to be fired
Legacy Health workers refusing COVID-19 vaccine prepare to be fired (msn.com)


Espino is one of the employees whose religious exemption was rejected. She’s been a registered nurse for decades and is now facing a possible firing.

Coleman Nagy’s religious exemption was also denied. He works as a respiratory therapist at Legacy Emanuel. He’s worked in health care for decades.

The Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) is also calling out Legacy Health, saying the “blanket rejections” are “bad policy” that further impact that staffing shortages at hospitals and will “ultimately impact quality of patient care.”

"Across the state, Oregon’s registered nurses have a high rate of vaccination (over 80%)."


83,000 hospital workers is a huge number. Even if NONE of them were doctors or nurses, how will the hospitals run without support staff? The doctors and nurses going to make appointments, clean the halls, bathrooms, and ER? They going to run the supply rooms and restock the place? Keep the power going, do regular maintenance? Security? I think it is kind of closed minded to discount a hospital worker's "status". Snooty too.
 
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sry to hear that DrJenner,
sometimes I feel that we in healthcare take death with a shrug, it happens, but we do have feelings too, we just bury them slightly deeper, this is an issue I can talk in the real world with my my love only, same ward as me, not with my brother or any one else, seen so many dead or dying at work..
 
I haven’t put a lot of stock in using available beds as a metric for COVID hospitalization urgencies. My wife had to wait all day for a bed in 2019 for pancreatitis...long before COVID. Hospitals make money off people with insurance by keeping the beds full.
 
Hospitals make money off people with insurance by keeping the beds full.

Yes well that's just Adam Smith's Invisible hand of capitalism at work through the rational profit maximizer, where the highest marginal utility of an economic system (Hospital in this case) is the logical end result of fu*king over the largest volume of consumers (patients) for the longest possible period of time.

It's all explained here Profit maximization - Wikipedia
 
2. Majority of covid are un-vaxxed, have had a few vaxxed through (mainly older with chronic conditions)

That's odd because everything Ive read lately says that countries with the highest vaccination rates, have the highest covid numbers..

In other words, I don't believe you.. Or wont I trust, believe or respect ANY doctor who blindly obeys the CDC including my last one.

Latter hospitals and doctors.. Much!
 
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Dr.,
You have a good support system here to vent to if need be. I am sorry for your loss. PLEASE take some time for yourself to honor your friend...
With respect,
Erqueen75:USA:
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Thank you so much. I appreciate your kind words 🤗
 
I haven’t put a lot of stock in using available beds as a metric for COVID hospitalization urgencies. My wife had to wait all day for a bed in 2019 for pancreatitis...long before COVID. Hospitals make money off people with insurance by keeping the beds full.
You’re right. It’s like that all the time.
But have hospitals put off profitable surgeries before, as they lack beds and people?
 
That's odd because everything Ive read lately says that countries with the highest vaccination rates, have the highest covid numbers..

In other words, I don't believe you.. Or will I trust, believe or respect ANY doctor who blindly obeys the CDC including my last one.

Latter hospitals and doctors.. Much!

The reason Dr. Jenner is likely telling the truth is because she is not the one who determines her patients vaccination status. That's determined inaccurately prior to them reaching the ICU, by following the CDC guidelines of not counting those who got the vaccine uuntil, weeks after getting jabbed. Wait there's more, once the patient is due for a second *** or now a booster, from that time forward and until 2 weeks after there second *** or booster, they are considered unvaccinated.

Vaccinated deaths have now surpassed the non vaccinated deaths and will continue to excellerate at an expadential rate..
 
The reason Dr. Jenner is likely telling the truth is because she is not the one who determines her patients vaccination status. That's determined inaccurately prior to them reaching the ICU, by following the CDC guidelines of not counting those who got the vaccine until, weeks after getting jabbed. Wait there's more, once the patient is due for a second *** or now a booster, from that time forward and until 2 weeks after there second *** or booster, they are considered unvaccinated.

Vaccinated deaths have now surpassed the non vaccinated deaths and will continue to accelerate at an exponential rate..

That's a good point Proud Prepper, but jenner blindly obeys the CDC and then tries to spread the disinformation here. Considering the FDA hasnt approved the booster for people under 65, isn't everyone under 65 considered un-vaccinated even if they had both shots? Their twisting the truth!

This isn't some woke-liberal forum jenner, and makes me wonder if you realizes who your trying to fool.. Now I don't believe a word you say, including the BS story about your friend dyeing from covid. Your blindly believing the results of the misused PCR test which has >90% false positive rate and is meaningless as a diagnostic tool to determine an alleged infection.

People die all the time jenner, but it's rarely because of covid unless they were hospitalized. Here's a capture from the FDA's virtual meeting which swayed the vote 16-2 against the booster. Maybe you should watch it or find sheeple on some woke forum to fool.

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