Critical Care Doctors Are in Crisis

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13. GOOD FOR YOU, DOC!!!!

“In my mind, it was like, ‘This is your doing. You chose not to get vaccinated and here you are,’” says Mathew, who works at Deaconess Henderson Hospital in Henderson, Ky. “I would say, ‘You’re probably going to die and this could have been preventable—how sad is that?’ I would walk away. And that’s not who I am.”

That's not who you are because you are a physician. But when confronted with immeasurable, purposeful stupidity, you have to call it like you see it.

I hope that before intubating a patient you explain to them the process: inject paralytic drugs to stop them from breathing; pry mouth wide open; poke around with a probe with a tiny TV camera attached to find the vocal cords; slide a tube down the throat; strap it in place; then a steady flow of paralytic to keep their diaphragm from breathing. Explain that to them, grinning all the time, then tell them they could have avoided it.