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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is how bad things have gotten here, in the DMV.  My tough, macho Dr. husband, who I've only seen cry once in our 20 year marriage, is a seasoned Doctor (hospitalist).  Therefore he is a hospital-based physician and is/will be working in the hospital with Corona patients.

He came home from work crying yesterday.  It scared me. He says things are bad already, he and the staff are being worked to the bone, they are all stressed, no one knows proper protocol for treating these patients and protective gear, mistakes are already being made because staff is confused, morale is low, staff are starting to call out sick with CV, and the CV cases are multiplying.  He hears from his colleagues at NYC hospitals about how things are going there now and is terrified.

He's terrified of getting the virus since they are being told to reuse protective gear.

This situation is terrible, folks.  The doctors are at the point where many of them are freaking out.

I have never seen my husband so stressed.  I've never been so stressed/depressed in my life.[/quote]

Sorry for being brutally honest but I don’t feel sorry for you or your doc husband.  This is part of the territory of what he signed up for.  For the future this crisis will
Separate those who really have a passion fir sacrificing to save lives vs choosing a career for the sole purpose of
Stable earnings, job security, and status.  I know plenty of healthcare workers who are crying now, wondering why 
They chose such a dangerous career.  [/quote]

Nurse here. I have to be brutally honest with you; F off.  This is what he signed up for? GTFO.  None of us signed up for this.   Long hours, missing holidays, stress, helping people? Ok, yeah sure.  Not having proper equipment? Nah, we did not sign up for that.  I am compassionate but not a martyr.  Health care providers are dying out of sheer incompetence from the government.  By making health care providers out to be martyrs, people like you, the government, and hospital administrators get to wash their hands of culpability.  You want health care workers to stop whining about it? Give us the right PPE.  You would never send a soldier to war with a broom stick and tell him/her that he/she knew what they were signing up for. [/quote]

I don't believe the government runs the hospitals in the US. In the UK, yes.  [/quote]

+1 Even those in the field cannot understand who let them down--their own field did. It's the job of the healthcare industry, not the government. I was enlightened by the MD's post about hedgefunds owning them and cutting costs. That I can sympathize with and it's something I didn't know (though not surprised to learn). It explains so much about this crisis. So to summarize: government doesn't run healthcare, stop blaming them for supply shortages (they are not responsible for manufacturing them, supplying them, or buying them for hospitals), blame private equity and hedgefunds. Between the unfair advantage they will all get in the bailout and this new information, it becomes more and more clear every day that they may cause the end of our civilization. They should be stopped.[/quote]

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