Telehealth

[Jolly]

To address the people getting fired...

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/telehealth/new-york-governor-signs-telehealth-executive-order-to-curb-hospital-worker-shortages.html

[George K]

@jolly said in Telehealth:

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/telehealth/new-york-governor-signs-telehealth-executive-order-to-curb-hospital-worker-shortages.html

You can do a lot of good stuff via telemedicine: take a history, follow up on surgical care, answer questions, etc.

But, you can't take a blood pressure, get a blood sample, listen to a chest or intubate someone over zoom.

I wonder where the "shortage" comes from: the nurses/docs/PA's, or the people on the "front lines," taking care of sick people in-house?

[Jolly]

Don't know.

What I do know is that New York lost a good many hospital workers because of the state vaccine mandate.

[Jolly]

Speaking of the mandate...I read a piece yesterday written by a guy who just spent a week in NYC. He wrote the vaccine "passport" was being spottily enforced, especially at restaurants.

[George K]

@jolly said in Telehealth:

the vaccine "passport"

My place (Northwestern) didn't provide me with a card. I have to go to MyChart and print a documentation about the dates of vaccination, lot #, location. If I want a "card," I have to specifically request it.

That's totally fine, but it gets messy when, as I did this weekend, I go somewhere else for a booster.

All this documentation's going to take up serious room in my wallet.

[Copper]

@george-k said in Telehealth:

You can do a lot of good stuff via telemedicine

My sister the psych nurse does all her work, meeting patients, through the laptop. I think most of the job is managing meds.

[Jolly]

If (big if) they take them.

[LuFins Dad]

This still makes no sense. An x-ray technician that’s unvaxxed wearing proper PPE and taking proper precautions poses much less risk to me than not having that x-ray performed in a timely manner because they are understaffed….

[Jolly]

I suspect a huge percentage of those unvaxxed guys have natural immunity and are no more likely to be infectious as a vaxxed employee, regardless of PPE.