Now that’s going overboard in the other direction. At least they’re acknowledging that black patients frequently don’t get the care they need, though.
I agree with them about dismissing BMI. Some individuals with higher BMIs are muscular, athletic types. Or they’re overweight and making every effort to be active and eat healthier.
It was also based on a line drawing of an average man, which fails to acknowledge that women in the child bearing years may be fuller in the hips and lower body. The expected BMI is 18-24.9% for both men and women? Really?!?!?!
The sexes have no differences?
How much worse could they be than some pre-med and vocational students who simply don’t want to learn and sometimes, through agitating against the “difficulty” of certain senior science courses like biochemistry, prevent students who want to learn from doing so?
I’m acquainted with a student of a dental hygienist program who didn’t even know why she needed such courses as chemistry, anatomy and physiology and psychology “just to work on teeth”. She’s pretty shrewd in some other topics, but really?
Personally I’m tempted to seek acupuncture or Ayurvedic medicine. These professionals have been, as a rule, more open to learning and treat the patients as whole patients.
Love your point of view. You keep on being you. Here’s my point of view. Get vaccinated, get boosted. And I don’t have problems with mandates. Vaccine mandates are all around. What’s the problem with this vaccine? Wait, let me guess.
Agree 100%. I don’t have a problem with vaccination mandates, either.
Those who think health care workers who are in patients’ faces should be free to opt out, two colleagues were forced to delay surgery because of COVID-19 infected staff.
I’m not as acquainted with one as she’s on a different shift, but the other had to limp along in pain with a degenerated hip for at least a month longer than he would have had he gone as scheduled for that replacement.
It isn’t just about you and your “freedom to choose”, but about potential staffing shortages and patients not being able to access care due to a highly infectious disease. Funny you don’t complain about hepatitis B, flu vax, TB testing mandates, but you’re squealing like stuck pigs over this one.
Some of you insist those who get the vax get COVID-19 anyway. They do, as all but myself in my household did, but their symptoms were mild & they recovered at home. My daughter was fussing more about a cold.
Are you whining about the assertion that a flu shot won’t necessarily protect you against the flu as it’s formulated on the previous year’s most common strains? Probably not, but this new vaccine has you in hysterics.
You guys enjoy your selective outrage. I’ll maintain my support for mandates in the absence of a health or even religious exemption.
Have a wonderful rest of your day whichever side you support.
I focused on this section for a reason. If this is true, then why concern yourself with someone in your face not being vaccinated? If you’re vaccinated, you’ll just get mild symptoms, right?
If I get Covid I’m worrying about my symptoms, not the person giving me Covid. What do I care if the person giving me Covid is vaccinated or not?
I could care less if everyone from friends to coworkers and neighbors opt out of vaccinations. It’s their business, and I do have friends who have opted out for various reasons.
But individuals like nurses who are working with patients who are already compromised and often these professionals want to disrespect patients’ rights to make choices, it’s hypocritical.
They weren’t squawking about labs & vaccinations to get into college or yearly tb testing per OSHA requirements unless their first screening was positive, but an additional vaccination is infringing on their rights?
What?
And COVID-19 transmission can negatively affect staffing, resulting in shortages that delay patients receiving care.
Two delivery men unvaccinated & dropping off an appliance in my home is one matter. Medical personnel who deny everything from patient choices to access to care at all pleading for their own freedom to choose is another matter.
It’s odd, having two family members who were quarantined for five days.
One day a video about COVID-19 popped up on YouTube. A Dr. Carroll posted that one.
Couldn’t find his, but did find others related to his topic of COVID-19 & blood type:
I have type O blood. My family members who got a little sick have A.
None of us can control our blood type, but we do have control over whether or not we get vaccinated. Or maybe think twice about large gatherings. Or eat well, or exercise, or make an effort to maintain a healthy weight, or control those conditions like diabetes that increase odds of transmission & poor outcomes.
Do you think I started reading at the 4th paragraph?
Mandates aren’t necessary if everyone can catch it and spread it regardless of vaccination status. You get vaccinated if you want milder symptoms. As did I. I don’t care who else is vaccinated.
You’re ignoring how Covid has caused health care facilities to go through periods of being overloaded and our healthcare workers going through hell. That can translate into delays for the rest of us on surgeries and other needs.
It does unnecessarily prolong the process of “diluting” the virus, and there will be more casualties. Best let the virus spread and out-mutate itself, without anyone suffering from serious or long-term illness/effects.
Many of them have a very good reason, prior infection. Naturally acquired immunity is actually a thing as we all knew for a hundred years or so until recently.
