My first entry on the coronavirus beat — Over three hundred doctors at Pittsburgh’s massive UPMC hospital system have signed a petition challenging administrators’ decisions to press forward with as many elective surgeries as they can. news.yahoo.com/doctors-at-pit…
Yahoo News obtained UPMC’s internal policy guidance on elective procedures, which emphasizes learning to live with the outbreak.
“COVID-19 is likely to be part of our biome for the foreseeable future,” administrators wrote. “Cancelling clinical care is not a long term solution”
“COVID-19 is likely to be part of our biome for the foreseeable future,” administrators wrote. “Cancelling clinical care is not a long term solution”
Hundreds of UPMC’s doctors are petitioning the hospital system to change course, citing the inadequacy of current testing and the need to conserve the hospitals’ capacity ahead of looming shortages.
In continuing with as many elective procedures as it can, UPMC seems to be defying an executive order from Pennsylvania’s Governor that prohibits them (zoom in on the right hand column). UPMC administrators argue this prohibition only applies to unnecessary elective procedures.
