peter m
Well-known member
Re: Medical care, under dire circumstances
#31:"The only answer for individuals interested in their families surviving a severe influenza pandemic under these circumstances is to prepare to provide good home care to their family and friends. You must not count on your doctor being available nor the hospital. While one or both might be, this is not something that the prudent should bet their life on."
This is what the modern medical system has evolved to. Homecare for sick folks ,especiially for seniors, is increasingly outsourced to the home. I worked briefly for Apra health Care as medical supplier doing deliveries of IV's, O2 tanks, and all other portable medical devices to patients homes, even entire hospital beds. The emphasis in this day and age of managed care is for hospitals to get patients out of the hospitial as early as possible when they recover sufficently, to save costs to patients and their insurance companies. Sorry to say that but this is how it is now. Some treatments after the critical care phase can be performed by the patients family or spouse at the home. Just need caring family members, or if the patient has ample resources visiting/scheduled home health care workers.
Yes, folks need to prepare to provide in-home care to their loved ones as much as possible when the pandemic hits hard. Especially in crowded, densely populated big cities the ER's will be pandemonium with long long wait times, and hospital's lack of resources in both vital equipmemt and trained personnel wil lead to inadequate inattentive care for many in event of a worst case snenario pandemic surge.
#31:"The only answer for individuals interested in their families surviving a severe influenza pandemic under these circumstances is to prepare to provide good home care to their family and friends. You must not count on your doctor being available nor the hospital. While one or both might be, this is not something that the prudent should bet their life on."
This is what the modern medical system has evolved to. Homecare for sick folks ,especiially for seniors, is increasingly outsourced to the home. I worked briefly for Apra health Care as medical supplier doing deliveries of IV's, O2 tanks, and all other portable medical devices to patients homes, even entire hospital beds. The emphasis in this day and age of managed care is for hospitals to get patients out of the hospitial as early as possible when they recover sufficently, to save costs to patients and their insurance companies. Sorry to say that but this is how it is now. Some treatments after the critical care phase can be performed by the patients family or spouse at the home. Just need caring family members, or if the patient has ample resources visiting/scheduled home health care workers.
Yes, folks need to prepare to provide in-home care to their loved ones as much as possible when the pandemic hits hard. Especially in crowded, densely populated big cities the ER's will be pandemonium with long long wait times, and hospital's lack of resources in both vital equipmemt and trained personnel wil lead to inadequate inattentive care for many in event of a worst case snenario pandemic surge.
