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#57976 |
Please squeeze
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Clinton, MO
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#57977 | |
'Tis my eye!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Chiefsplanet
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One way they could lighten the load is to stop spreading so much ****ing fear. I was at the doctor (sick) the other day and they said 90% of their appointments that day were requests for COVID tests. They said about HALF of those were people with no symptoms - people that were going to the doctor because they were scared they might have COVID because somebody they knew had it. The media is doing our healthcare workers a great disservice by continuing to harp on this like it's some great plague. There's difference between an informed public and an inflamed public. |
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#57978 |
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2013
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On a side note, a friend of mine was experiencing chest pains along with her illness that made her feel uncomfortable. 8 hours she waited to see a Dr. Who didn't find anything so they sent her on. Another 6 hours she waited to see a Dr.
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#57979 | |
Champion Golfer Of The Year
Join Date: Aug 2001
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This is but one example. All over the metro area, over the last 7 days, there are about 50 similar stories. Most facilities are limiting elective surgeries. To be more accurate, elective surgeries that require a 1 or 2 night stay. If you can handle a total knee or shoulder as an outpatient at a surgery center, you shouldn’t have much trouble. Do that, and spike a fever? Risk sepsis? That’s where you got problems. |
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Please squeeze
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Clinton, MO
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#57981 | |
Kind of a mod
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Donkey Land
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#57982 |
Wheeeeee!!!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: In a house
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Posts: 19,830
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#57983 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Denver
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Maybe a PCP can get people in for a test in a more timely manner? |
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#57984 | |
'Tis my eye!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Chiefsplanet
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#57985 | |
'Tis my eye!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Chiefsplanet
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It isn't some black and white issue like you're making it out to be. Vaccinated people are getting sick too. By the way, I got my information from the health care professionals directly. They TOLD ME why they're so overrun. So if you have issue with that, I'll give you their contact info and you can take it up with them. We have ICU beds open here. We don't have doctor's offices. |
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#57986 | |
'Tis my eye!
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Chiefsplanet
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My daughter and wife went at 1:30 and they got home at FOUR. There were 24 people ahead of them - the office they went to has 1 ARNP and 3 rooms. |
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#57987 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Jan 2016
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#57988 | |
MVP
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Missouri
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I did get a laugh out of the health center offering vaccination hours that overlap their testing hours. I'm sure they're separated somehow, but inviting the unvaccinated to the same place the suspected sick are being tested just seems like a great idea. ![]() |
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#57989 | |
Starter
Join Date: Jun 2020
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Sorry, but you couldn’t be more wrong. The fear is pushing people to overload walk in clinics, doctors offices and ERs for a scratchy throat, cough or other cold symptoms. They have people believing COVID is a death sentence when it’s barely got a higher chance than the flu to kill. I’ve got a doctor and 2 ER nurses in the family. They work in local hospitals and yes, they are exhausted and stressed. It’s causing irrational fear that is driving people to the ER in bus loads (practically) demanding life saving Miracle treatments for the sniffles. 24x7 covid reporting is causing mothers to put their covid positive children in their trunks FFS. |
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#57990 | |
MER
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Colorado
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We even pay for rapid tests. I’m sure there are spots that are overloaded but we haven’t had any trouble testing people. |
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