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Kelly MD's avatar

Your posts make me so sad for this precious group of people. Brilliant writing. In medicine, we need to always ask if what we’re doing is working, helping or harming. I obviously, none of the interventions made including 6 foot signs, plexiglass or masks have worked. Likely, your residents got infected no matter what. At my clinic (we’re an independent clinic but I have liberal partners), I pushed back against all of the requirements when our staff got sick anyway. None of what we did made a difference and it wasted our time. Who can you push back against in senior care? Sometimes even asking the questions and pointing out the absurd helps. I would empower the families of the residents to start pushing back. I did this at the hospital, too. I told my patients that when they wrote reviews to comment that their visit was made worse by not being able to see faces. We don’t mask at my hospital anymore. But I am in the south.

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James Wilkinson's avatar

No^6. The inability of our society to recognize and address these shortcomings reflect a general decline of the civilization we have built. Any one of us could wind up inheriting tomorrow the legacy of the care we show today.

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