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In reply to the discussion: Should hospitals be allowed to turn away patients based on race, creed, suspected gayness... [View all]NNadir
(33,512 posts)...and frankly, any nurse or pharmacy tech preparing IVs certainly faced risks, if you're trying to make a weak argument that unvaccinated people pose a risk to health officials.
There are many other risks faced by medical professionals treating cancer, radiation, exposure to VRE, MRSA, etc.,.. and then there's cost. It cost my father's insurers, and his estate, close to $300,000 to die.
My father's death involved eating up medical resources that could have been used in a thousand better ways.
Your point is what?
Of course, now, in the case of Covid-19, most medical professionals, competent and wise ones any way, have been vaccinated, so in this case, the risk is extraordinarily low, roughly equivalent, I would guess, to the lifetime risk of someone preparing 5-FU solutions faces as an occupational hazard.
I don't think that stupidity should be a death sentence, and I don't think that we should kick people into streets to die because they watch too much Fox News.
We have anti-nuclear people here who may die from air pollution? Should we have to fill out a survey about our life choices before seeking medical care?
Should we ask doctors and nurses to conduct these surveys and making judgements on top of everything. Call ethicists at midnight before giving a sick person oxygen?
Should we ask people being treated with anti-infectives that fail, protease inhibitors, antibiotics, if they missed doses and led to resistant strains of viruses and/or antibiotics in order to decide to treat them?
What exactly do you want?