Terrifying how many of our medical experts are barely holding on throughout the last two years with all this violence against them
Terrifying how many of our medical experts are barely holding on throughout the last two years with all this violence against them
The entire nursing sub is stuffed with similarly fucked stories. I doubt it would make a difference, especially at this point, but it feels like too few people appreciate not just the truly fucked conditions doctors and nurses have been dealing with but also the ways COVID and its real treatments fucking rot your body. The story you linked talks about amputating the patient’s foot. I’ve heard shit about maggot colonies popping up in intubated patients. The gasping for air, crying, the overwhelming panic. Seems like the moment you need to get hospitalized for this you’re better off dead.
They probably should’ve directly shown the suffering on TV or something, HIPAA be damned. Like I said, it would’ve probably done jack shit for masks and vaccines, but I guess we’ll never know.
I know plenty of much smarter and wiser thinkers have said it in much smarter ways but: nothing is real to Americans unless you see it on TV.
Almost done with my nursing school (not looking forward to entering this Hellpit) and doing my rounds in critical care and yeah this is common. Covid doesn't just fuck with lungs it causes so many other downstream problems like clotting disorders in which patients will get multiple DVTs and then throw one of these giant clots and have an embolism. Treating this via medication leads to hands and feet turning outright black and blue due to vasopressors inducing necrosis if used too long or improperly as some ICUs are too swamped for care to be given effectively and so shit gets forgotten. Then you got patients that survived covid but now have increased risk of stroke, again due to the clotting impact as well as reduced activity tolerance, who then drop several months later. This fucking virus is hell short term and long term and we will likely see a dip in the life expectancy of this country once covid survivors get older and drop.
Absolutely missed an opportunity here. I remember they showed some of what was going on in Italy back at the beginning and it was plenty enough for me