Dr. Megan Ranney is associate professor of emergency medicine, and associate dean of School of Public Health at Brown University. She unburdened her soul on September 20, 2021, when she shared the crisis at US hospitals with CNN Health. ‘We have healthcare workers in a state of moral injury in Montana’ and this saddens her.
Not Every Patient Receives the Care They Might Wish
‘We are at the point where not every patient in need will get the care we might wish to give. It’s not business as usual at your local health resources,’ Dr. Shelly Harkins, chief medical officer at St. Peter’s Health agrees.
Casualty events such as mass shootings and large fires prepare medical professionals to ‘ration their care’, according to Dr. Ranney. Something similar may be unfolding as the U.S. averages around 1,926 Covid-19 deaths a day.
Meanwhile Dr. Anthony Fauci continues to plead the ‘overwhelming majority’ to have their vaccinations, while the rate stalls at 54%. Some 80% of U.S. ICU beds are in use, with close to 30% holding COVID-19 patients.
Resources Put Healthcare Workers in State of Moral Injury
‘This puts our health care providers in a state of moral injury,’ Dr. Ranney told CNN Health. ‘A situation where they’re going to see people die who they would normally be able to take care of.
‘It is an unacceptable state for us to be in, in the United States of America. And it is not fair to those doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and EMS providers.’
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear laid it down the line on September 16, 2021. ‘I hope that you … hear very clearly that the number one thing that we can do to get through this is to get vaccinated. By percentage, 90-plus percent of folks that end up hospitalized are unvaccinated. So how do we not overrun our hospitals? We get vaccinated.’
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