Wow, that first paragraph is as
cynical as it gets: " The ICU is filled with old people." It ends with people now knowing why it tales so long to get doctors appointments, and saying the author is not sure whether ir nit this is a good thing, that we (the articlee is about the US but is pretty much the same everywhere) spend so much of our health care resources on the old.
While his dad, also not in his twenties, was cared for in the same ICU. Maybe he should visit an ICU for infants and babies next time...
Staffing. Well, what can I say. Patients are there 24/7, staff is obviously not. That staff works in shifts, great realization. I am almost surprised that the author wasn't surprised ICU staff has vacation and sick days.
And finally "The ICU is a good place to not die, but a bad place to recover.". No shit, Sherlock, tgat is basically what an ICU does, stabilizing patients enough to transfer them to a "normal" station for recovery, or, worst case, to a paliative unit if death is the only possible outcome.
Oh, not to forget: "It really makes me think about how the hospital might be organized differently. If the hospital focused less on pure survival, might their patients recover faster?" What makes a emotionally involved amateur think that the people running ICUs, after sometimes years if nit decades of training in that exact field, don't think about this question constantly? And tgat the current state of ICU care represents the current optimal solution?
I am so fed up with articles from people judging things by looking at them from the outside. Mind you, the articke in question here is one of the better ones.
Staffing. Well, what can I say. Patients are there 24/7, staff is obviously not. That staff works in shifts, great realization. I am almost surprised that the author wasn't surprised ICU staff has vacation and sick days.
And finally "The ICU is a good place to not die, but a bad place to recover.". No shit, Sherlock, tgat is basically what an ICU does, stabilizing patients enough to transfer them to a "normal" station for recovery, or, worst case, to a paliative unit if death is the only possible outcome.
Oh, not to forget: "It really makes me think about how the hospital might be organized differently. If the hospital focused less on pure survival, might their patients recover faster?" What makes a emotionally involved amateur think that the people running ICUs, after sometimes years if nit decades of training in that exact field, don't think about this question constantly? And tgat the current state of ICU care represents the current optimal solution?
I am so fed up with articles from people judging things by looking at them from the outside. Mind you, the articke in question here is one of the better ones.