The Next Stage Of Health Care Collapse
A feeding frenzy over the carcass ensues.
Health care is in trouble almost everywhere. It’s almost as if deciding not to do anything at all to combat the pandemic any more wasn’t the most brilliant idea. If you’ve been lucky enough not to need to go to a hospital in the last couple of years, it’s easier to pretend it isn't happening, but various health care professionals tweeting about their workplace becoming a living hell is backed up by real world news events.
Patients are dying in hospital ERs while waiting for staff to get around to seeing them. People in extreme pain with shattered bones are waiting for days to be seen. If the Emergency Room you go to manages to be open at all, which is a pretty big if, because for the first time in our history, they’re now regularly shutting down ERs in every province.
In our hospitals, people with no medical training are now having to perform medical procedures on their own loved ones, because that’s the only way they’re going to get done. Haven’t got a family member or other close contact who can sit at your bedside and keep you alive? Best of luck.
That’s not what I’m here to tell you. I’m here to warn you what’s inescapably coming next, which includes but isn’t limited to an escalation of the above.
