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

    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.