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Butterflylady

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22. Years ago I worked at a small community hospital

Mon Apr 27, 2020, 04:11 PM

Apr 2020

I was CNA, certified nursing assistant. One evening they brought in a patient that had a very contagious virus that only the doctors on duty and nurses were allowed to attend to. They dressed in what I would call astronauts get up. Any way at that time they couldn't find any antibiotic to treat him his chances of survival were not good. Thankfully they were able to come up with a combination of antibiotics that worked.

However, I remember one of the doctors that treated him saying how lucky they were to be able to treat him and save his life but in the future the the viruses were becoming more and more smarter because they were able adapt to any medicine they could come up with. He said in the future there would be a virus, germ, bacteria or whatever you call it, that would wipe out a lot of the population because the medical field wouldn't be able to find a medicine to combat.

That doctor was right on the money and it scared the hell out of me.

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