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- 9 months
Why are you advocating for taking away/delaying people’s healthcare instead of fighting for more staffing? Also, everyone has a right to healthcare and that right is more important than you nurses and doctors having an easy day
- 9 months
The problem is that nurses and doctors aren’t having “easy days” and if they are understaffed because of something that is not plannable, eg illness or mass casualty events, then it is critically important that they are not expected to be overworked.
Healthcare staff are already (for the most part) being pushed to their absolute limits, with very high rates of burnout.
I think the point of the OP is not to advocate taking away people’s healthcare, but rather asking for society to be more understanding of healthcare professionals when delays are necessary to save other people’s lives.
Remember that we generally as a society are fighting an uphill battle to even pay decent wages to the few staff we do have, let alone expand staffing. So while we should fight for adequate staffing, that requires people to be prepared to pay for it (through healthcare cost or increased taxes/insurance fees), and in the meantime, don’t blame doctors and nurses when they don’t have time in their 12 hour+ days for every elective procedure because someone in the unit got sick.
- 9 months
Because adding more staffing is really hard and will take a very long time even if we started today.
We still should be working for that ideally today, but in terms of immediate actions taking away/delaying healthcare is something that can be done today
- 9 months
I’d argue the person who left that comment (and all those who upvoted it) are self-centered pieces of shit that seldom view others as actual human beings that can get sick. They’re Main Character Syndrome morons that cannot even think past their own existence.
- 9 months
If the doctor was intentionally made ill, whoever is responsible is to blame. Otherwise, shit happens and it’s a no harm no foul situation.