Loads of beds in the Nightingale hospitals, we're never going to run out of beds
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostImagine a tramp is in intensive care with COVID. All other intensive care beds are full. A young doctor is in urgent need of care. Do you remove the tramp to die or leave the doctor to die?
Is the tramp also a doctor who tried to come out of retirement to help with covid but was knocked back by all the red tape?
Is the tramp significantly younger than the doctor?
What is wrong with the 'tramp' hobo lifestyle anyway?Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.Comment
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The tramp would not have got in. The same decision would have been made, just at a different point in the funnel.Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostCan we go back in time and kill the tramp as a baby?Comment
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostTypically untrue if you are talking about ICU beds. The patient will be brought to ED and ventilated in ED while an ICU bed is found or opened, or exceptionally an alternative location found like a theatre suite. The patient may ultimately be conveyed ventilated to another hospital where an ICU bed is available.Comment
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Originally posted by Old Greg View PostIs there the right number of staff with the right skills?I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter manComment
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Originally posted by Whorty View PostOf course, there must be, else why would all that PR gone into setting them up in the first place
then it turned out that years of training was requiredmerely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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My wife used to have that job as administrative head of a surgical unit - deciding which patients got treated and which ones didn't. Targets made a lot of that a farce - people would get bumped from serious surgical lists because someone with an ingrowing toenail would breach the waiting list target if they weren't. In the end it did my wife in and she left with stress related stuff that has affected her permanently.
A lot of the issues in hospitals are caused by targets and breach times. I accept there needs to be some sort of holding to account but I'm not convinced that's the way to do it....my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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