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theMadMan · Mar 28, 2020

If you are Injured and/or Severely Sick --I.E. (broken bone -chest /pains any trauma )
-and NO COVID-19 symptoms----------
do you feel comfortable going to doctor or ER in the current climate ???

How do you avoid potential contamination; its 50/50 on any average day you may get any /rouge infection ---now seems inevitable?????

WOW

unusualsusp11 · Mar 28, 2020

don't go near the hospital. that's where all the cases are. surefire way to get it. do doctors still make house calls. they did in 1950.

HacheMan · Mar 28, 2020

Better yet, if you are seriously ill in the near future, will you even be tended to???

HacheMan · Mar 28, 2020

What about Dentists?

Are they even working right now?

mango · Mar 28, 2020

I wouldn't go near a hospital unless it was a life or death situation like a heart attack or something serious. Broken ribs heal on their own so what would ER do for you other than give you pain medication and most likely you come home with Coronavirus.

busterhyman · Mar 28, 2020

mango said:
I wouldn't go near a hospital unless it was a life or death situation like a heart attack or something serious. Broken ribs heal on their own so what would ER do for you other than give you pain medication and most likely you come home with Coronavirus.

lol...how about 2 see if the broken ribs..didn't lead 2 internal bleeding??

X-Files · Mar 28, 2020

theMadMan said:
If you are Injured and/or Severely Sick --I.E. (broken bone -chest /pains any trauma )
-and NO COVID-19 symptoms----------
do you feel comfortable going to doctor or ER in the current climate ???

How do you avoid potential contamination; its 50/50 on any average day you may get any /rouge infection ---now seems inevitable?????

WOW

Maybe wear some sort of mask when you go to the hospital?

"... masks are effective at capturing droplets, which is a main transmission route of coronavirus, and some studies have estimated a roughly fivefold protection versus no barrier alone..."

I feel safer with it on. After all, it has been reported the virus can remain airborne for hours. So when someone sneezes or coughs it into the air, it may be flying around for hours, onto people's lips, into people's mouths, on or in people's noses, around or on people's eyeballs, etc.

http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=1156058

mango · Mar 28, 2020

busterhyman said:
lol...how about 2 see if the broken ribs..didn't lead 2 internal bleeding??

You do know a common symptom of internal bleeding is throwing up blood? I think that qualifies as a serious situation, don't you think?

Ricboff · Mar 28, 2020

unfortunate shit show, gentlemen. dont develop pain

...this shall pass

health care practitioners are considered emergency service so if your state/province is in lock down, u can still reach out to your provider MD/dentist frist before heading to the ER if you're in pain.

HOWEVER, their scope of treatment is limited to only emergncy treatment, all 'elective' treatment is postponed. Many are screening calls/video calls and rx meds (no active treatment)- Dental is especially bad as ER's arent equiped for dental issues , you will get a rx of amox and not an i and d as an example. Hopefully you have an empathetic dentist. Most states/provinces will have an 'emergency dental clinic', they will be equipped with the proper PPE

slippery slope as any liability issue will land on the health practitioner if he/she does not follow the guidelines.......

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