ACE Not Accepting New COVID-19 Patients

Fear of dying makes a pragmatist of many an otherwise noble person.

 

I read that as they do not have protective gear... if they all get sick who will take care of every other medical problem that arises... I for one understand ....

 

Logically, why would any hospital take in a COVID-19 patient? Logically, they can reduce risk by not accepting infected patients.

 

Take it like a man die at home

 

About 1 week ago, the life partner of a very close friend had very severe pain in the lower right side of her abdomen. At 3am her mother brought her to the Provincial Hospital. The doctor there sent her to ACE Hospital for a lab test. In the meantime, her life partner had also arrived at ACE Hospital, but was waiting in the car. Then he received a message from his life partner that she and her mother were refused entry to ACE Hospital because they were not wearing a mask. ACE Hospital refused to give her a mask. So my friend went to the entrance and asked for the nurse in charge. After a discussion with the head nurse, his life partner (without her mother) could enter and have the urgent lab tests done. This solution was acceptable to my friend.

Of course it would have been better if the life partner had brought a mask. Nevertheless, it is understandable that one forgets the mask in case of very strong pain and stress. But under the suspicion of an acute appendicitis the ACE Hospital could have provided 1 (one) mask, couldn't it?

It is very questionable that the ACE Hospital closed the hospital for corona cases due to scarce resources (masks and protective clothing) but also due to overworked staff. With this action ACE Hospital putting an extraordinary burden on the colleagues at Silliman Hospital. Because one thing is clear, Silliman Hospital has to deal with the same problems.

 

I said many, not every or all. Many is too strong as applied to health care workers facing this virus, it implies a majority, which up to this point has not happened. My bad.

This virus is as big a test of a persons character that many health care workers will ever endure. The choices they make in the face of this virus can be judged by a higher power or by their peers.

The Hippocratic Oath is not the same as the UCMJ.
Not in my military since 1945 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Slovik
Not officially that is.

 

I'm not sure what type of jobs can be described as a duty and which can't, but it seems like medicine at the hospital level, is pretty close. Their job is to save people and sometimes that subjects them to risks. Do firefighters get to decide to not fight a fire because it is dangerous or a police officer get to not respond to a call where there were shots fired. Being a soldier requires the ultimate duty.