On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 10:49 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I actually have had to explain it to angry family members (well, not > explain, but help them process it). > > It’s not a matter of denying a pt a bed; when the hospital resources are > exhausted, some pts are going to be denied resources. It’s a matter of who > gets the limited supply. I am just suggesting if it comes down to 2 pts > needing one ICU bed, I would not be against using vaccination status as one > of the tie breakers. >
There's no debate that scarcity is the issue. If there are two patients in Emergency who need an ICU bed and one opens up, the staff has to decide who will get the bed. However they make their decision, one family will be told we're waiting for an ICU bed to open. In this case the family doesn't know that a bed had opened and their sick family member didn't get it. So they might be impatient and even angry but the staff can say there's nothing they can do until a bed opens. If the staff among themselves decide to give preference to a vaccinated patient, who will know? On the other hand if it becomes written hospital policy that vaccinated patients get priority in life saving situations, that opens up a can of worms. Then they are asking to be sued and get horrible coverage for abandoning members of the community. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiEZbhFbqzy2ze4XYZ6sPKm3kcpjVEr73DPebsSZC7MZCQ%40mail.gmail.com.
