So I had a patient. He went in to the hospital several times recently, he had lung cancer last year. He was treated with radiation and seems like he beat that, but it left his lungs with scarring, of course, had some COPD, some heart disease, likely.
He ended up in the hospital 10 days ago, had a heart attack when he arrived, but his condition from COVID-19 was so poor, they essentially just put him on comfort care.
They kept him in the hospital and treated him with oxygen and fluids and tried to keep him comfortable, but ended up passing.
So his primary diagnosis was COVID-19, secondaries were COPD, myorcardial infarction, pnuemonia, etc. So, his cause of death is multifactorial, but he is listed as a COVID-19 death, not as a primary myocardial infarction. Or COPD. Or stroke. Or pneumonia.
So... there are LOTS of people like him, who have underlying health conditions, who in normal times would end up dying from heart attack (myocardial infarction), or from stroke, or from COPD, or whatever. But according to all the Google-doctors out there who are worried that "normal" causes of death are being "attributed" to COVID-19, my patient should be reported as a something else, I guess. Because if he had died from his myocardial infarction or from a stroke or from respiratory failure secondary to COPD in a normal month, one of those would have been listed as his primary cause of death, but now it's not.
So, somehow, all this is a giant f***ing conspiracy to make COVID-19 seem like it is worse, so that we can falsify the numbers, so we can scare people. You know, because all these DOCTORS on the ground who are taking care of people, who are fighting this illness, who are trying to save people's lives, they're really just looking for ways they can amp up the numbers, because... you know... doctors are IN LEAGUE with politicians. Just like they're IN LEAGUE with drug companies. Just like they're IN LEAGUE with insurance companies. All out just to screw the little people, the ones who we spent literally DECADES training to help, because we don't give a SH|T about them. Right.
I'm just sick of hearing it.
He ended up in the hospital 10 days ago, had a heart attack when he arrived, but his condition from COVID-19 was so poor, they essentially just put him on comfort care.
They kept him in the hospital and treated him with oxygen and fluids and tried to keep him comfortable, but ended up passing.
So his primary diagnosis was COVID-19, secondaries were COPD, myorcardial infarction, pnuemonia, etc. So, his cause of death is multifactorial, but he is listed as a COVID-19 death, not as a primary myocardial infarction. Or COPD. Or stroke. Or pneumonia.
So... there are LOTS of people like him, who have underlying health conditions, who in normal times would end up dying from heart attack (myocardial infarction), or from stroke, or from COPD, or whatever. But according to all the Google-doctors out there who are worried that "normal" causes of death are being "attributed" to COVID-19, my patient should be reported as a something else, I guess. Because if he had died from his myocardial infarction or from a stroke or from respiratory failure secondary to COPD in a normal month, one of those would have been listed as his primary cause of death, but now it's not.
So, somehow, all this is a giant f***ing conspiracy to make COVID-19 seem like it is worse, so that we can falsify the numbers, so we can scare people. You know, because all these DOCTORS on the ground who are taking care of people, who are fighting this illness, who are trying to save people's lives, they're really just looking for ways they can amp up the numbers, because... you know... doctors are IN LEAGUE with politicians. Just like they're IN LEAGUE with drug companies. Just like they're IN LEAGUE with insurance companies. All out just to screw the little people, the ones who we spent literally DECADES training to help, because we don't give a SH|T about them. Right.
I'm just sick of hearing it.
