Yup, the next wave is here...
Also, I have previously thought that in Chinese hospitals, there were a lot of favoritism but the professionalism in American hospitals would not allow it. That's one more myth about American superiority shattered...
A nurse in a strained El Paso hospital says the sickest COVID-19 patients are put in a doctor-less room called 'the pit' where they are given 3 chances to be revived before workers let them die
Ashley Collman
•November 16, 2020
- Travel nurse Lawanna Rivers recently recorded a video, where she described her experience treating COVID-19 patients at the University Medical Center of El Paso.
- The city has of the virus, as the nation battles a .
- In the video, Rivers said the hospital's sickest COVID-19 patients were put in a "pit" that doctors don't enter for fear of exposing themselves to the virus.
- "My first day at orientation, I was told that whatever patients go into the pit, they only come out in a body bag," she said, adding that this posting has been her worst during the pandemic.
- The hospital told it "cannot fully verify the events expressed" in Rivers' video but acknowledged the "difficult, physical and emotional toll" the pandemic has taken on health workers.
Rivers said doctors at the hospital would not enter the area, and nurses like herself who were stationed in them were under orders to
perform CPR just three times on a patient before letting them die.
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The doctors don't even step foot in those COVID rooms to see those patients ...We as nurses, it's OK for us to be exposed, but you as doctors, you don't even come in there. You can't get exposed, but we can and y'all are making all the money," she said.
Rivers also accused the hospital of giving special treatment to the
wife of a doctor once. She said this woman, whom a nurse at one point called a
"VIP" patient, was the
only person to make it out of the ICU alive during her nearly a month at the hospital.
"They pulled out all the stops for that woman, it was nothing that they didn't do for that woman. And guess what? She was the one patient that made it out of the ICU alive, and was able to downgrade to a longterm acute care. So you mean to tell me because
she's a doctor's wife, her life meant more than any of those other patients?"