Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/p4kcwi/we_cannot_stretch_anymore_hospital_leaders_on/
It's interesting to see r/medicine and some of the other medical subreddits start to radicalise against antivaxxers. Moral injury and secondary-exposure PTSD are already huge killers in the field. The normal moral context behind normal cases in an ER or ICU really does a number on staff, and now they've got a very strong ethical dilemma. Their sickest patients are either lemming terrorists who were fine with murdering everyone to disprove germ theory or they're the victims of those terrorists. While dying of a virus they don't believe in, those terrorists will still push their bullshit and expect sympathy from someone who has spent a year in a plague warzone watching people die.
The professional subreddits are slowly but surely beginning to turn hard against COVID deniers. Mods ban them if they post, commenters are more vocal about the situation and now understand "do no harm" with moral nuance similar to a medic's "do no harm, do know harm". As further variants and waves batter a wounded field full of wounded people who have already began striking against their hospitals, it's going to be a fascinating time to keep an eye on the medical community
I do wonder if, in the near future, doctors and nurses will just refuse to care for any anti-vaxx patient... and this becomes so widespread, the hospitals have no choice but to let them.
See my comment. Many of us are already starting to do this by prioritizing vaccinated patients. We’re not outright refusing care if there are no other patients, but this is a pandemic and there is always someone.
If we have to choose between a pregnant woman and a guy who went to a maskless motorcycle rally, we’re choosing the pregnant woman.
thanks for doing the right thing!
One of the things I was scared about when we first heard about beds being full last spring was for someone to get so frustrated that they shot up a hospital.
Given the venn diagram of who has the most guns and who mostly refuse to get the vaccine; I’d be really scared of something popping off if someone were refused treatment
We don’t outright refuse treatment. They are just left waiting while we prioritize others ahead of them.