johngpt
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My wife is the RN in charge of surgical services at one of our local hospitals, part of a big hospital system.Elective surgery has been canceled due to the covid 19. I was supposed to get it worked on next week, one hand at a time.
No elective surgeries for the duration due to lack of supplies. Could be months.
Emergency surgeries only.
Feds are making mandates that are contradictory, not sensible and/or impossible to follow given the unavailability of N-95 masks and other supplies. Too many competing Federal agencies, CDC, NIH, OSHA are like too many cooks...
Then local surgeon physicians who are hospital medical directors are interpreting the mandates idiosyncratically.
And individual surgeons have been deciding that they don't have to follow any rules.
She Who Must Be Obeyed has been working 10 to 15 hour days for weeks trying to keep all the ducks in a row.
It's like herding cats.
She says there isn't enough alcohol for her to get through this virus-emic.
Even before the COVID, the regular flu had all hospital beds in Albuquerque occupied.
Post-surgical patients had no rooms to go to after surgery. So everyone has been working double shifts taking care of them.
Canceling non-emergency surgeries will help nurses stay afloat.
It will help provide service for emergent situations.
Her nationwide compatriots say hers isn't an isolated situation.
They all feel there isn't enough alcohol...