You are reading a single comment by @William. and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
Without seeing all the medical notes and having the experience and training you can't make a judgement so it is better to say nothing than set a narrative based on your own biases. So low rent questions like 'only 5l of oxygen, does this mean that a more needy has been bumped?' is less helpful than nothing.
This. Stoking animosity and division, pitching the health of one against another, spreads anger and panic and does have an effect on behaviour in the real world. Imagine if this was a Sun headline: "Is Boris taking a bed away from more needy patients?" people would rightly call it out.
William.
Without seeing all the medical notes and having the experience and training you can't make a judgement so it is better to say nothing than set a narrative based on your own biases. So low rent questions like 'only 5l of oxygen, does this mean that a more needy has been bumped?' is less helpful than nothing. It's also ignorant of the years of experience needed to make clinical judgements. Its not a no check list exercise.