1/🧵 I’d like to think as a medical community that we have changed & no longer discharge people w/out appropriate follow-up, but just last week I met a #COVID19 survivor who was discharged from the ICU simply to follow up w his primary care physician.
#LongCOVID #PICS #A2FBundle
#LongCOVID #PICS #A2FBundle
2/ He couldn’t return to his job, was fired & had no income for his family. That resulted in him not having enough money for medications, gas, or bills. He missed his doctor’s appointment, his electricity was turned off, so he is unable to apply online for disability. 😤
3/ The cycle continues. I usually see these pts when they get septic again & end up back in my ICU on life support.
4/fin
Every time this happens, I feel complicit in something unethical. I am part of a system that did not take responsibility for the person in the bed or the family now crying at the bedside.
#TimeforChange
Every time this happens, I feel complicit in something unethical. I am part of a system that did not take responsibility for the person in the bed or the family now crying at the bedside.
#TimeforChange
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