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Coming soon? Rumors unvaxxed being denied medical care? (Original Post)
Girard442
Aug 2021
OP
Why waste the space on them when others have tried to prevent infection and are doing their
RKP5637
Aug 2021
#1
Right now VAXXED patients with critical NON-COVID conditions are being denied immediate care
hlthe2b
Aug 2021
#2
Transplant candidates are triaged according to behaviors, prospect to survive. In a triage
emmaverybo
Aug 2021
#5
RKP5637
(67,088 posts)1. Why waste the space on them when others have tried to prevent infection and are doing their
best not to have Covid.
hlthe2b
(102,138 posts)2. Right now VAXXED patients with critical NON-COVID conditions are being denied immediate care
and beds, so why is it we are allowing the RW to frame it otherwise? That's the point of the ER doc walk-outs (S. Florida--which were not actual walk-outs, btw but meant to make a point).
Deuxcents
(16,088 posts)3. Rumors.. hummmm
Sometimes theyre not what they seem
Maru Kitteh
(28,323 posts)4. GOOD. Maybe it will worry a few of them enough to FREAKING VACCINATE.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)5. Transplant candidates are triaged according to behaviors, prospect to survive. In a triage
situation vaxxed or unvaxxed could become one among other deciding factors as to whose treatment to prioritize.
ripcord
(5,279 posts)6. It is starting
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-doctor-pledges-stop-treating-unvaccinated-patients-n1277316
Dr. Jason Valentine, a physician at Mobiles Diagnostic and Medical Clinic Infirmary Health, posted a photo on his Facebook page showing him posed next to a sign that says effective Oct. 1, 2021, Dr. Valentine will no longer see patients that are not vaccinated against COVID-19.
Since posting the sign, Valentine wrote that three unvaccinated patients asked where they could get a vaccine. No conspiracy theories, no excuses. Just where do they go, he added.
Valentine had a blunt answer for those who asked him about his decision.
If they asked why, I told them COVID is a miserable way to die and I cant watch them die like that, he wrote.
Dr. Jason Valentine, a physician at Mobiles Diagnostic and Medical Clinic Infirmary Health, posted a photo on his Facebook page showing him posed next to a sign that says effective Oct. 1, 2021, Dr. Valentine will no longer see patients that are not vaccinated against COVID-19.
Since posting the sign, Valentine wrote that three unvaccinated patients asked where they could get a vaccine. No conspiracy theories, no excuses. Just where do they go, he added.
Valentine had a blunt answer for those who asked him about his decision.
If they asked why, I told them COVID is a miserable way to die and I cant watch them die like that, he wrote.