Tragedy

[steve488]

Dread - condolences on your loss. I just lost a good friend and head of a local charity that I had worked with for many years, again to Covid. Hospitals have and will likely always have a battle to keep the unknown diseases out. In their position, the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the one and their hope is always to help as many as they can. Most hospital staff and particularly the ER and ICI / NICU want to save every patient and when they cannot, it is extremely traumatic even when they know the odds are slim. Hard as it seems I think if it can save a life then it is worth the pain. I just hope we can finally get enough control so that the world can return to some kind of normal.
Stay safe everyone!!

 

[Boneman]

Sorry to hear that Dread, condolences! Sounds like it is still how it was early in the pandemic 2020. My best man from my wedding had his dad die in the hospital of Covid back then, no visitors and very tough for all family involved.

 

[Rich Cohen]

THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN. PERIOD!

 

[dreadnut]

At that point I would try to check them out of the hospital so they could die at home among their loved ones.

 

[dreadnut]

Our largest hospital (where Mrs. Dread works) is about to deploy emergency procedures due to the high influx of Covid patients; the numbers are higher than ever before.

Yesterday they tested just over 2.000 people, and 27% tested positive, so like 550 people!

We're stocked with groceries so I'm stayin' home for a while.

Micki has to work a few days, but she is in labor and delivery so not a real high-risk area for Covid. Plus she is triple vaccinated, and so am I.

 

[Brucebubs]

I have a friend I correspond with who lives in Alaska. Both his parents-in-law passed away on the same week-end.

 

[dreadnut]

Lots of folks being taken out by this contagion who otherwise lived pretty healthy lives.

 

[Rich Cohen]

Hospitals and doctors are not trained to sympathize with family members. They only focus on the patient, and the determine what is right for the patient. Most of the time it works. But, in end of life situations they are not suited for the emotional side of things. Family will remember the emotions and the person, not the heroics of the doctors and nurses. Then, the bill arrives.

 

[Coop47]

Hospitals and doctors are not trained to sympathize with family members. They only focus on the patient, and the determine what is right for the patient. Most of the time it works. But, in end of life situations they are not suited for the emotional side of things. Family will remember the emotions and the person, not the heroics of the doctors and nurses. Then, the bill arrives.

That's a pretty broad indictment.

 

[chazmo]

^ I agree, coop. I do not think that is by any means universally true, Rich.

 

[Rich Cohen]

^ I agree, coop. I do not think that is by any means universally true, Rich.

Charlie, I overstated the case, I agree.

 

[mavuser]

condolences, DN