Doctor who criticized hospital's measures against coronavirus is fired

This article below was published on Feb. 27th, so they have had a month to do something about this:

FDA Aware of Some Shortages of Personal Protective Equipment at Hospitals

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told Focus on Thursday that it has heard of spot shortages of some medical devices, including personal protective equipment (PPE) used by hospitals to guard against the coronavirus (COVID-19).

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China is the world’s largest producer of medical protective masks, and production difficulties have had ripple effects across the region. In addition to the protective equipment shortages at hospitals, generic drugmakers are bracing for potential shortages next summer and FDA is tracking 20 specific drugs that could be affected.

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This was published in 2017. Once again the government and the healthcare executives have failed to do their job. No surprise there...

Personal Protective Equipment Supply Chain: Lessons Learned from Recent Public Health Emergency Responses

Personal protective equipment (PPE) that protects healthcare workers from infection is a critical component of infection control strategies in healthcare settings.

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The US PPE supply chain has minimal ability to rapidly surge production, resulting in challenges to meeting large unexpected increases in demand that might occur during a public health emergency. Additionally, a significant proportion of the supply chain is produced off-shore and might not be available to the US market during an emergency because of export restrictions or nationalization of manufacturing facilities.

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During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic and the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic, the commercial supply chain of pharmaceutical and healthcare products quickly became critical response components. This article reviews lessons learned from these responses from a PPE supply chain and systems perspective and examines ways to improve PPE readiness for future responses.

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FFS

fire an ER doctor just before your pandemic hits because he dared to speak some truth


what a bunch of thin skinned arseholes when truth burns to that extent

no wonder they continue to learn nothing

cotton wool ears and an empty head !

the doctors should be running the hospitals !

Doctors in distress, quarantine send SOS for more protective gear, tests: 'It’s a complete mess'

The catchphrase of "flatten the curve" is all off, DiPaola says, because it assumes the health care system capacity is stable. But in reality, if teams of doctors and nurses are quarantined or fall ill, the health care system capacity will be greatly diminished. If one nurse tests positive, for example, 20 other health care employees she's been in contact with may immediately be quarantined, too.

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So we are shutting down the entire economy in order to flatten the curve while medical personnel don't have the PPE they need to contain/treat the virus. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

He won't have trouble finding work at the moment

This don't make any sense at all with the narative they have built.

This shits bad but lets fire a doctor right on the start of a sh$% storm.

It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? We will supposedly face a shortage of medical personnel to deal with this pandemic, yet they fire one (and threaten to fire others I've heard) because he dared speak out about the lack of PPE.

This is happening in other industries as well but right now healthcare professionals are on the frontlines.

Exactly!

But he will likely have trouble finding PPE no matter where he works.

St Joseph's is a state funded shit hospital. They take in mostly illegals with state healthcare and do the bare minimum for everyone else. I have a real dislike for their hospital because of the way they treat actual citizens.

This would be all hospitals under medicare for all, I'm sure.

Good to hear from someone familiar with the hospital.

Hospital administrators lying about the situation everywhere. My sister is a nurse in Texas. She told me about the shortages they are facing. Mayor in Baton Rouge, LA, stated that testing in Baton Rouge was limited due to a need to save the limited PPE for medical personnel in healthcare facilities.

NYC hospital responds to photos of nurses wearing trash bags as gowns

Lucia Lee, the senior director of media for the Mount Sinai Health System, provided a statement to TODAY stating the "safety and protection" of Mount Sinai staff and patients "is always and will always be our absolute top priority," especially during the coronavirus pandemic.

"When it comes to staff wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), the facts are very clear: We always provide all our staff with the critically important PPE they need to safely do their job," Lee wrote. "If an individual does not have their proper PPE, they do not go on the floor, period. Any suggestion otherwise is simply not accurate."

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This was published on March 20th:

We May Have 72 Hours To Address The COVID-19 Protective Equipment Shortage

This is where I must call on our national leadership to come together and take emergency action: we need to increase rapidly our own mass production of PPE in the United States immediately. According to these leaders, hospitals across this country are expecting to run out of PPE in anywhere from two weeks to just under three days. If this does happen, personnel including doctors and nurses will no longer be able to report for work as they will have no means to protect themselves against this pandemic.

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Administrators treat doctors like shit.

Fact.

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Why anyone would become a doctor these days is hard to imagine. Decades of grueling education. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in education costs.

All so you can be treated like shit and as easily replaceable the entire process.

It sums up our whole market driven culture.

Shit.

Thanks for sharing. Very interesting and frightening as well.

he said DR WHO

That is the problem with America and the West in general. Small minded psychopaths, narcissists and sociopaths, have total control over everything. From private to public institutions, it is a full blown pathocracy.

I have a feeling there will be some job openings pretty soon at a lot of hospitals.

There's 53 positions that just became available in Italy, if he's willing to relocate.

Dr Who has been fired!

Cost of healthcare is way beyond full retard, f-em. Medical establishment, no money to be made from healthy people.

Kind of a shitty time Lord imo. Why doesn't he just jump in his porta-john and go back to June 2018, grab all the PPE he can load up? Problem solved. I'm sure he's a good doctor but crap at utilizing options at hand.

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The solution is easy. Fire all the hospital adninistrators. NONE of them have medical degrees. They in it for the money, pure and simple. They should all be kicked out of the hospital during this epidemic....and NEVER let back in.

Hospital administrators (beaurocrats) are the most cold-hearted people I've ever met in my life.

Exactly. And they consider it the cream floating to the top.

Psychopaths running everything.

Good for him, he can stay alive now.