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2020-04-25 Economy
Hospitals Are Empty & Going Broke As Normal Healthcare has been Suspended
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Posted by Clem 2020-04-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Temporary dental crown broke but dentist not allowed to fix it, hope to not break or shift the exposed stub before being allowed to install permanent crown and have to do the whole expensive thing over.
Posted by Glenmore  2020-04-25 00:40||   2020-04-25 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry to hear, Glenmore. Know that you're not alone, and that -- unbelievable as it sounds -- it's even worse for thousands in NY, CA and many other states.

Cancer patients have had essential surgeries put off because they're not deemed "urgent." Others have died needless deaths because care and resources were diverted to try to prolong the lives of nonagenarians by a few months. Probably as many of the latter have actually been killed by the practice of stuffing ventilator tubes down their throats as have seen their lives briefly prolonged.

An age of madness, hysteria, unreason. Hang in there and hope with the rest of us that reason will prevail soon.
Posted by Lex 2020-04-25 03:49||   2020-04-25 03:49|| Front Page Top

#3 JERUSALEM’S HERZOG Medical Center has joined other Israeli hospitals in converting some of their units into special inpatient divisions for cases of COVID 19. According to HMC spokeswoman Ayelet Mishor, the 160-bed underground section of HMC will be reserved for coronavirus patients. This total separation from the rest of the hospital will protect other patients and will enable HMC to easily absorb coronavirus patients from Beilinson, Sheba and Rambam Medical Centers.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-25 04:24||   2020-04-25 04:24|| Front Page Top

#4 My dentist told me that if I have an emergency, just meet him at the office, as they are allowed to do emergency work. Whether he's got any staff to back him up is another matter.

It's well past time to end this 'mandatory closing of unessential business' bullshit; it never should have been enacted in the first place. Run every one of those SOB's out of town, starting with that fascist battleax in Michigan.
Posted by Raj 2020-04-25 06:54||   2020-04-25 06:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Covid kills by causing a massive over-reaction...

Ironic eh?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-04-25 08:08||   2020-04-25 08:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Baby, bath water.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-25 08:14||   2020-04-25 08:14|| Front Page Top

#7 It's one ugly baby, and when the politicians all start saying "It's not my baby," the real fun will begin...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-25 08:32||   2020-04-25 08:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Ran, dentist was told that didn’t qualify as an emergency.
Posted by Glenmore  2020-04-25 09:04||   2020-04-25 09:04|| Front Page Top

#9 My wife's respiratory tech called to check on her and said the hospital had prepared for a "surge", but it never happened..he says things are pretty quiet.
(She has been doing "tele-med" calls with her Doctors..)

San Diego,Ca.
Posted by crazyhorse 2020-04-25 11:00||   2020-04-25 11:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Glenmore, sorry to hear about that. I'm fortunate with my dentist - I've known him for fifteen years when he was still at Boston University, so I'm certain he'd sign off of anything as an emergency, at least with me and a handful of other people.
Posted by Raj 2020-04-25 11:05||   2020-04-25 11:05|| Front Page Top

#11 #5 Covid kills by causing a massive over-reaction...


This will be the real healthcare crisis to come out of this.
Posted by charger 2020-04-25 12:03||   2020-04-25 12:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Every flu season. Especially if a Republican is in office.
Posted by Dale 2020-04-25 13:08||   2020-04-25 13:08|| Front Page Top

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