The above quote was made up. Or was it? I have heard stories, through my connections, for weeks now that doctors were being furloughed or even fired. This Boston Globe article just sealed the deal: Emergency room doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have been told some of their accrued pay is being held…
Who remembers the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl? They were discussing the fate of one of the other characters; how he died, and what was needed to lift the curse. It was a bit of comic relief and irony in the film. Similarly, this referenced article seems a bit ironic in…
Yeah, maybe they should not have ignored the recommendations, huh? Not good. Get our awesome newsletter by signing up here. We don’t give your email out and we won’t spam you Tweet
It was about 4-6 weeks ago when I got hit with a link about CV19 in my area and it had a link to picture of this dude. I thought that was it. I had no idea that there were even more memes with him. OMG. Well, I guess I am not the only one…
“Rimming (mouth on anus) might spread COVID-19“. NYC Dept of Health Okay, then. Nothing much more to say about that. Get our awesome newsletter by signing up here. We don’t give your email out and we won’t spam you Tweet
We find it so pitiful when someone or some organization tries to profit off a catastrophe like this CV19 pandemic. We have mentioned others in past blog entries already but nothing compares to what the AANP is trying to do. They have used this crisis to aggressively politic and push for total independence by nurse…
Joshua Lerner is a 10-year attending ER doctor. He posted a long Facebook post which really hit home. It describes what is happening all across the country, including my home state of Virginia and, yes, even my home town of Fredericksburg. There are a lot of promises being made which are simply not being fulfilled. Due…
“We’re all in this together.” Oh, how I have come to hate this phrase, which is less an expression of communal goodwill than a euphemism for “we get to take your stuff and tell you what to do.” Arizona’s two major health systems, Banner Health and Dignity Health, are putting this into practice with the very folks we…
In addition to working on the frontline, I’ve also been consuming large amounts of physician posted social media via private Facebook groups and med twitter. Here is the current terrible state of things happening around the country now. More commonly in New York where the situation is the worst Fact: COV2 is airborne, lasting 3…
The only thing I have heard from the lowlife, greedy bastard, health insurance companies is they will cover some testing and maybe the vaccine when available. Has anyone heard anything else? How about waiving a few monthly premiums? How about donating money for PPE? I want to be proven wrong. Show me they are doing…