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So sad, and so unnecessary. Medical care in this country is a disgrace, no offense to the great practitioners and staff. It’s “Big Insurance” and “Big Pharma” which are ruining us.
“Big Hospital” is also in that mix.
Biden’s fault. Again.
If only he had followed the Covid45 game plan so flawlessly executed by TFG.
And the dialysis centers.
“Big Kidney”
Home dialysis kills their business model.
Home dialysis requires a bunch of training and adherence to protocol. Which lots of clinicians will believe “those people” can’t be trusted to follow.
Meanwhile, there’s a new study out showing once again that transplant is way, way better. And we know what those lists look like.
I’ll say it again I have a degree in Parks & Recreation, and yet somehow I can follow the science. Thanks PBS!
And for a bunch of fucking businessmen in Trump’s maladministration I don’t think any of them could of passed Econ 51 with Walter Johnson at MIZZOU in 1982, nor have gotten their butts out of bed for the 7:40 AM lab. Because allowing Trump not to restock the national stockpile is why we’re still in this mess.
Well that and Trump’s famous line about not liking testing because when you test the number of infections goes up.
ETA: so with 3 shots this is why I still mask up. You never know what the person in the grocery store aisle is having to deal with, an infant or they could be a in home healthcare provider.
I always thought the perfect victims of Covid were all the Rightwing radio jockeys who were busy promoting anti-vaxx propaganda and ended up dead.
I was struck by how poorly these systems treat their own workers (below the elite levels of doctors). We trust nurses, clinicians, and other support staff with our lives too, yet these employees are all too often underpaid and overworked.
In the three decades before the pandemic, the number of Americans with end-stage renal disease had more than quadrupled, from about 180,000 in 1990 to about 810,000 in 2019
Hang on, so what’s going on here? Why are so many people so sick in the first place? Seems like this is what we really need to look into.
Well this is disconcerting.
Why are white patients three times as likely to get an organ transplant than non-white patients…in a system that’s supposed to be “fair”?
Here in CA we keep getting the same dialysis question on referenda - it’s been voted down twice already, I saw someone getting signatures for it the other day.
There’s got to be big money to me made.
Dialysis seems a bit intrusive/infection prone/capital intensive for doing at home, no? Or am I missing something.
Great, now you made me search the SoS site to see what bull is coming. At least “Legalize Ferrets” is back.
My niece was an ER nurse for over 20 years in a large hospital in a major city. After the brutal stress of dealing with COVID for about 18 months, she transferred out of ER and is now giving vaccines to people. It’s a much more uplifting, much less stressful role. COVID burned her out. I’m glad she’s renewing her joy in serving others in a modest role, but I’m sorry that her experience and knowledge are no longer available to victims of major, life-threatening traumas. These days, when she’s not injecting people against COVID she’s using her voice and her pen (or keyboard) to address the public and government officials about the costs of COVID in the medical community. I can’t tell you how proud she makes me.
high blood pressure and diabetes is quite prevelant in black people, i don’t know why…when i go to the ENDO for thyroid issues…most of the diabetic patients are black people.
Yep. The recorded outcomes for doing so are better.
My sense is that they have theories but lack studies as to why. Less stress in fragile patients? You’re exposed to those germs already? Better compliance?