Unrelated to your post, Honeysuckle, but yours was the most recent when I started typing.
From Karl Denninger’s blog:
Most of you all here know where this is coming from...copied and pasted.
“IM Doc
October 27, 2021 at 2:33 pm
I feel like I need to give an update from my world. Many things are happening all at the same time.
In brief, I feel that the troubles have started in earnest now in medicine in ways I did not see coming just weeks ago. What we in medicine are simply not going to be able to abide right now is a surge like we saw last winter.
First of all, as a PCP, I have always had the ability to zap small non-invasive skin cancers. We do that with liquid nitrogen. We have been out of this for a week or so now. Sourcing a new supply is now virtually impossible. And the amounts being asked for what is left are so astronomically high that we simply cannot afford it. Medicare reimbursement (which is most of these patients) will not even come close to recovering the cost. I understand from the supplier that the same issues are occurring to some degree with dry ice and more ominously liquid oxygen (used in hospitals of patient oxygen). I heard from 2 different suppliers the reason why this seems to be happening but the reason is so tin foil that I am not going to repeat it here until I can confirm this more reliably.
I know there are lots of biomedical folks here in labs that are frequent commenters.Are any of you having the same problems?
If this becomes a pattern, I would recommend to all to get your derm visit scheduled ASAP my understanding is this will not be temporary.
Our hospital staff is so diminished that my clinic employees are constantly being pulled to cover issues there. Outpatient clinical medicine is no longer organized here it has become a frantic triage. Right now, I would urge all Americans to not take their anger and temper out on medical office employees. They and their physicians are absolutely overwhelmed.
That problem however is minor. The hospital system pre-COVID was a disaster area it is now officially a **** show. The discharge process is now turned into a complete cludge. The problem in brief is that the companies that do home health and home oxygen and nursing home care have had their staffs now vanish to unworkable levels. Much of this has to do with exhaustion. But it is also the vaccine mandates. These are all national corporations so they instituted mandates weeks ago. And promptly lost large segments of their staff. Enough time has now passed for the remaining employees to experience complete exhaustion. You can only do so many 80 hour work weeks after all. So now there is nowhere for these discharging patients to go that is safe. They are having to stay in the hospital but that is simply not going to be workable for long. The hospital too has had its staff decimated.
I have sat through a whole 4 months or so of patients condescendingly tell me they would never allow an unvaccinated HCW to touch them. Over and over. My constant refrain was to be very careful about that feeling you may have NO health care workers to touch you if you keep that up. And we are slowly but surely arriving at that destination. At least two of these patients stuck in the hospital are two who could not bash the intransigent HCWs enough. They have now received their wish. Payment in full.
My niece just graduated from nursing school in June. Immediately hired on a COVID unit in a major hospital in one of our big cities. She has been there three months as dozens and dozens of nurses, MAs and RTs have left. My mind was completely and totally blown when she called to ask my advice last night THEY HAD JUST OFFERED HER THE JOB OF FLOOR CHARGE NURSE in her hospital a 3 month nurse a job that in other times was given to grizzled veterans.
I am not sure we are going to have to wait for judicial input into these vaccine mandates. The slow motion implosion has already begun at least in medicine. I am hearing the same stories if not worse from colleagues everywhere.
I am not trying to alarm or scare. I am presenting my world as it is. I do not believe most Americans understand how dire this situation really is.”
ThankQ, G_W !
I’m pinging this one out.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4006608/posts?page=974#974
Primary Care Physician reports on his situation.
Shortages of supplies:
dry ice, liquid O2 (used for production of hospital O2), and liquid Nitrogen (used to remove small skin cancers)
Shortages of medical personnel:
home health, medical O2, nursing homes, hospitals.
Plan to eliminate the carbon-based life forms seems to be moving ahead on schedule. Mudder Erf is safe though /s
We know a nurse who has been regularly recognized for excellent skills and caregiving, who had 35 years of experience in a specialized unit that has a high burnout rate... and who was also mandated by her hospital's megacorp to get the cabal's Bill Gates Cocktail of Misery injection. She was only given a month to comply or be terminated and lose part of the benefits she was entitled to. The medical exemption was a joke; the religious exemption likewise- there was virtually no wiggle room (cleverly done) and if you were a Bible-centric Christian, you were not going to get it. So she separated.
She isn't going back into the field even if the mandate is lifted. She and her compadres were praised to the skies last year when she went into the unit with a brave face and no more protection than a cheap Chinese face mask. She did not flinch or whine, even when patients and fellow workers got Covid-19. In less than a year, she was summarily discarded and not one bloody yard sign in the city where she works was put up that supported her and like-minded nurses. That was the thanks she got.
She's done, and she's had the scales fall from her eyes. As Denniger says- "Paid in full."
Thanks for posting.
Will share.
That post is actually from Naked Capitalism, not market-ticker/Denninger.
I did a little digging....
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/10/200pm-water-cooler-10-27-2021.html#comment-3625265
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