[dirk digler]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

One way they could entice more medical workers is to lighten the load.

One way they could lighten the load is to stop spreading so much ****ing fear.

I was at the doctor (sick) the other day and they said 90% of their appointments that day were requests for COVID tests. They said about HALF of those were people with no symptoms - people that were going to the doctor because they were scared they might have COVID because somebody they knew had it.

The media is doing our healthcare workers a great disservice by continuing to harp on this like it's some great plague. There's difference between an informed public and an inflamed public.

Nonsense. The issue is stupid people not getting vaccinated and over running the system. My daughter's last day was this weekend at Research and she is moving on to something less stressful, been on the Covid ICU unit since the beginning. But for the last couple of weeks they had the Feds in helping them because they are so short staffed. Herself and her fellow co workers have had enough.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/coro...257151042.html

As hospital resources around the metro have become strained in response to a new wave of COVID-19 patients and staffing shortages, a small team of medical professionals has been dispatched to Kansas City’s Research Medical Center through a federally-run program.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has sent a 15-member team with the National Disaster Medical System to assist health care workers at Research Medical Center. The team is being brought in to “help care for patients during this most significant surge of COVID-19 in our region,” HCA Midwest Health, which runs the hospital, said in a news release Friday.

“HCA Midwest Health’s leadership has never been prouder to work alongside such a dedicated and committed family of physicians, clinicians and colleagues,” the news release said. “We are incredibly grateful and humbled for these resources — and this demonstrates that as a community, and nation, we are indeed stronger, together.”

The medical professionals are to be assigned to the hospital’s COVID-19 Unit and Emergency room along with other areas. The team includes physicians, nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, safety logistics specialists, and administrative and support staff specialists.