Vanderbilt ICU doctor on pregnant COVID patient refusing treatment because "it's not real"

[FelineOverlord]

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[Texaswitchy]

1. So it is.

Shame she and her baby might die.

[gratuitous]

2. Invest yourself emotionally, bring all your training and expertise to bear

And have the patient piss all over you and deny that there's anything wrong, or if the sickness is too apparent, that Covid has anything to do with it.

[wryter2000]

4. He's a better person than I am

I'm afraid I'd tell the nurses "comfort care" and go see another patient I could help.

[Irish_Dem]

19. He has yet to hit rock bottom.

Maybe people have not started threatening his life and hitting him every day.

[Act_of_Reparation]

24. This is in part why doctors have such high suicide rates.

Under normal circumstances, the job is difficult enough. You get into the business because you want to succeed. You want to help people, you want to fix problems, you want to see patients go home as healthy as they can be. Most of the time, you're successful. But that's not what you think about when you go to bed at night. You think about the times you didn't succeed, and wonder what you could or should have done differently.

Now, you have to deal with the public aggressively distrusting you, shitting all over your profession and your character.

Physician burnout is real. And it's been bad lately.

[Vinca]

3. The anti-vaxxers are urging people to leave the ICU, too? Why don't they just send

cyanide pills around and a packet of Kool-Aid? It's so hard to imagine how people can buy this BS when they're laying there gasping for breath, especially when there's a second life to consider. No wonder so many medical people are resigning. It must be very depressing and discouraging.

[wryter2000]

6. Why don't they urge people not to go to the hospital at all?

Make room for other people who need care AND save the doctors and nurses the curse of having to deal with them.

[dutch777]

8. This is a GOOD plan...I like it. Pity the kids watching mom or dad die from stupidity.

[KT2000]

5. how are we going to deprogram these people

This woman will probably die quietly and others are actually harming others due to their bizarre beliefs. A nation cannot support this many people who are so thoroughly brainwashed.

[roamer65]

7. We don't.

Fact is there are too many people on this planet, anyway.

Let natural selection do its job.

[Delphinus]

9. You say

"we don't" - I say, I don't think we can. If they are this sick and denying they are, it just won't ever happen.

Natural selection will do its job for sure.

[StevieM]

10. Plenty of them will survive.

And I fear that they will turn us into a fascist state in the coming years.

[Delphinus]

11. And that

is a very scary thought.

[obamanut2012]

15. We don't -- they will die

The only thing that sucks is that they are killing minors, and leaving their alone with strangers.

They suck.

[RainCaster]

12. "palliative care is in the parking lot"

Save ICU beds for those who can think.

[wryter2000]

20. Make sure it's a covered parking lot

We wouldn't want to be cruel.

[RainCaster]

23. Sunshine would be a good cure nt

[ananda]

13. At least it'll take some of the load off of hospitals and staff.

What can I say?

Darwin I guess.

[DET]

14. Wow

What an amazingly humble, compassionate man. I don’t know how he does it.

[Ilsa]

16. "I'm diagnosing you with 19-divoc. The treatment is

very similar to treating covid, only in a different order."

[snort]

18. "Did I say Covid? I meant lung cancer".

[Patton French]

17. What in the world

Because it's not real? Seriously?

[Sogo]

21. If I were that doctor,

I'd just have to say, "I'm sorry, there's no treatment for you unreal sickness; nothing further I can do."

[nolabear]

22. What an extraordinary person that doctor is.

It’s so tragic the fear and ignorance (in the true sense of the word) that just destroys these people. I imagine it’s terrible for him to deal with, but I also think it helps to know he’s done absolutely all he can. The fear and lie-spreading are as virulent as Covid, and now more deadly. That kind of striving to save those women and babies is noble beyond measure. I hope they all find a whole lot of strength somewhere to go on.