Hello fellow Iowan! I hope we go red and get Joni back in. We’ll see. Ames is like Iowa City. There’s a lot of crazy professors who brainwash students.
That’s not even the best part of this exchange. Trump’s response to Biden was the best part of the debate in my opinion...
“Sometimes you’ve got to convince them.”
Perfect.
Are we sure that’s what he’s doing? Look at the old guy in the background... he looks like he’s doing the same kind of marking. The dude in the foreground makes it look suspicious when he checks over his shoulder.
I’m not sure how things work there in Maryland, but maybe this is part of their normal ballot checking procedure.
In my opinion, white supremacy is equal to growing up with a male role model. All of the so-called advantages that come with being a white person in America are due to male role models. The perpetuation of the welfare state and the “more kids, more money” way-of-thinking has destroyed the black population’s moral foundation.
I saw that too and I didn’t save the link. Did anyone save it? I loved it with the Rocky theme playing.
Edit: here it is! https://twitter.com/IAMISjp/status/1248697625991397376?s=20
Came here to say this.
Yeah, I’m in the Midwest. We’re planning for the surge, but my hospital only has 2 positive patients rn. We are partnering with local businesses to provide face shields, and hand sanitizer among other things. A lot of providers are pretty scared an nervous. I say they are watching too much of the fake news. For us it’s get ready and wait.
So... I’m a doctor in the middle of the country. We are doing our best to prepare for a big surge of critically ill patients. We have had to adjust our use of PPE so that the limited supplies we have are not completely depleted. I have literally never in a 15-year-career needed an N95 mask. I have worn one every day I have been working since this started. So you can see how equipment that we rarely use (and therefore keep lower stock) could easily run out. With out that critical equipment we are putting ourselves at high risk of contracting a virus that may have a very high mortality and morbidity.
It’s laughable and a little sad that you think that we are on some kind of gravy train. Perhaps that was true two generations ago, but not now. It is true that we are compensated more when compared to national averages, but please remember the time and financial commitment we made to do this job. Also don’t forget the risk we take when one mistake can cost a life - even if no mistake happens some patients still die and there is nothing we can do but try everything humanly possible and still lose someone’s mom, brother or child. Then someone sues you even though you know you did everything right... or did you? Try sleeping knowing that if the lawyers win they could take your future and your families future. (I have luckily never been sued, btw).
I agree that blanket DNR statements are ethically wrong. But that is about the only thing I agree with in your post.
We, as a profession, are scared and rattled by this. We want to help our patients and help them in the long run too. Most of us feel like pawns to the government and insurance companies (who both are constantly threatening pay reductions with more work required), we feel like pawns to hospitals (who are really to blame for stock-piling or under-stocking - my hospital is a good one I think, but many are predatory and for-profit), and we feel like pawns to bureaucrats (who give us nonsensical regulations with out any clinical knowledge).
I really see no reason to hate on doctors or nurses working in this crisis. Supply chain issues are due to governmental/insurance company/hospital bureaucracies that are run by dudes in suits, not by doctors in scrubs. I can only hope that this is another swamp that gets drained by the MAGA movement and gets back to letting us care for people safely and fairly.
https://twitter.com/DrMichaelLBrown/status/1323999900170915840?s=20