I'm working with doctors in admin and the Healthcare collapse? It's bad folks.

Doctors on call for ED while doing clinical at the same time.

Entire departments refusing patients in clinics up to 75 miles away. 3 weeks to make an appointment. Not to be seen, to make an appointment.

Shortages in all departments.

The only silver lining is that the there is a lot of solidarity among the people here.

  • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    The US healthcare system already collapsed, it is just that there has never been a straightforward acknowledgment or pronouncement from a "credible" institution. The hospitals won't admit it, because it would make them look bad, but they are bringing in McKinsey consultants and gutting their admin/services while increasing exploitation of all the employees that provide care.

    We had a major pandemic, with over a million dead, and there has been no effort to "recover" ... There was only a few months of celebrating healthcare workers as martyrs before deciding that they were just expendable without any ceremony or pomp. The system failed and a ton of people left for good: either because it isn't worth it to work in healthcare, or because they are dead.

    • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      Just to add, from experience, the healthcare system was in a prolonged collapse before the pandemic. But its dysfunction was normalized like a frog in a slowly-boiling pot. The pandemic just turned up the temperature too quickly and it croaked shinji-froggy-chair

      • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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        1 year ago

        Eventually, every day on the way in to the job I was full of dread and heartache... Every day at work I spent bearing witness to the collective human trauma and misery of our neoliberal fever-dream. Poverty. Desperation. Suffering. Shit and blood. All of it set to a soundtrack of moaning, screams, and impotent complaints playing on repeat. There is nothing more radicalizing than standing in the crowded waiting room of a level 1 trauma center in the yankee empire. The pandemic was just a dirge.