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Originally posted by rscalzo:
Many are cancelling any nonelective procedures.
The hospitals here will not allow visitation on any patient.

Well that is what happened to me and it is due to lack of help due to government meddling and not because there are not enough beds in the hospital, at least in my case, which is causing rationing of health care. I guess I am lucky because it is just a diagnostic prodecure. A lot of people need "elective surgery" badly including procedures that could very possibly affect their life span and others for much needed quality of life issues.

My wife says Covid 19 stays in the hospital are way down as most that come into ER and test positive for Covid are sent home with meds. We personally know two younger people with Covid that did not even go to the hospital but got meds from their doctor.

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Originally posted by Hamden106:
My local Walgreens Rx has had the same staffing woes lately. Add that the local BiMart Rx closed.
More customers, less staff, makes for hour long waits in the Rx line.

It is insane being a retail pharmacist as they are giving Covid vaccinations all the time too on top of their regular work and I doubt they got any extra help to deal with that. Even at the hospital they are begging my wife and others to work more but they don't want to because of the high stress these days. Wife does get some overtime at time and a half every week already. Now their payroll system is down and they are supposed the be manually "punched in" to start work but that means they need to get to work 20 minutes earler than usual to stand it line for that while not being paid. Their payroll provider Kronos was hit wth a ransomware attack and they have been told it could be several weeks before the regular payroll system is back on line. I told her to document her time on/off and try to get a witness to initial seeing that as I bet they will try not to pay her overtime worked.

Sure hope mine does not get cancelled I am smack in the middle of the prep!

Well, what a PITA that is, or isn't.

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Originally posted by Black92LX:
Sure hope mine does not get cancelled I am smack in the middle of the prep!

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don't sweat it. it'll all work itself out in the end.

The short staffing of hospitals nationwide has been a chronic problem that has administrators scrambling for years.
But the Covid workload, vaccine mandate has thrown it over the edge.
Some politicians and hospital CEO’s are giving speeches like “ we only lost 2% of our staff due to the mandate “ which sounds great except you were already running 10-15% understaffed and the extra 2% throws you into critical condition staff wise.
Lots of people in my hospital have swung retirement rather than put up with the politics and mandates, but those don’t count as losses due to the mandate. Many life long career health professionals of all kinds are calling it quits for a number of Covid related issues.

Agree it is going to get much worse before it gets better.

My personal opinion as a health care provider for over 30 years now is Obamacare, the pandemic fiasco, all the burdensome mandates related to billing and reimbursement propagated by CMS ( center for Medicare and medicaid services the billing gestapo) are all a long term calculated plan to ultimately collapse the system to allow moving forward for a fully government managed single payer health system ( aka socialized medicine)

I dont understand why; its just an in and out procedure.

As you already know covid is the blame for everything now.

You would think people would just apply for medical (perhaps hard to get) or religious (surely easy to get) exemptions. It's hard to imagine an employer denying a religious exemption and not getting destroyed with lawsuits. It is the employer, and not the regulators who are judging and granting exemptions.

That said, I still think there is a lot of short staffing issues in healthcare beyond those mandates. So I certainly believe that procedures are being bumped for some facilities who are in tight spots.

Finally got it done. My new Doctor is great too. I was actually in the procedure room at scheduled time of 8;30 which is a first ever for any procedure I have had done. Got to the hospital at 7:30 for registration and left at 9:30. I small polyp removed and recommended a 5 year follow up.

Good news

I'm 61. My doc keeps pestering to get one.
I'm not afraid of the procedure,I'ts going an entire
day without eating. I've never missed a meal in my life.

I’m 33 and have had 5 colonoscopies in my life (yay crohns). At least i know what to do nowadays. Hopefully the 6th one is free.

I’m on deck tomorrow morning, a little overdue so I’m trying to get-R-done. I came up negative with my required Covid test yesterday.

No food starting last eve, I think I can handle it. I went a handful of days back in SERE school.

As a little mental Bennie, I’ll be off to MI Thursday for a family visit & snowmobiling.

In some places they are making hospital staff who have tested positve for covid come to work anyway while they fired people who had covid and recovered, and then refused the vaccine or a booster.

Seeing that here also after the the shot mandate took affect, Cox Hospital put out in the news broadcasts a request for high school student volunteers to help at the hospitals. Why high school age? They lost more staff then they anticipated at a time when they needed additional staff then pre mandate levels.