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Peregrine Took

(7,502 posts)
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 03:57 PM Feb 2023

What do medical people think when an unvaccinated person comes in say, with a broken bone?

I know the word is that Covid is over and no one wears masks much anymore but I wonder how are hospital staffers handling the never vaccinated nowadays?

I ask as I have a neighbor (over 65) who fell and broke her arm and has had to be going back and forth to the ER about every other day for adjustments of her meds, cast, etc and I was wondering if hospital staff get upset with the unvaxxed or are they getting blase about it as most people seem to be (not me!) She does wear a mask I know that.

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What do medical people think when an unvaccinated person comes in say, with a broken bone? (Original Post) Peregrine Took Feb 2023 OP
Last time I was at Urgent Care the doc wore a PAPR which is a mechanically filtered breathing mask dutch777 Feb 2023 #1
Went to my primary doc MOMFUDSKI Feb 2023 #2
Went to mine in October and nobody was masked Warpy Feb 2023 #6
Nobody here wears masks. SheltieLover Feb 2023 #3
No one at my local doctor's office wears masks -- except my wife and me. rsdsharp Feb 2023 #4
Hubby and I snowybirdie Feb 2023 #5

dutch777

(3,456 posts)
1. Last time I was at Urgent Care the doc wore a PAPR which is a mechanically filtered breathing mask
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 04:13 PM
Feb 2023

He was not taking any chances with his health because of the dumb shits. I don't blame him a bit

 

MOMFUDSKI

(7,080 posts)
2. Went to my primary doc
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 04:15 PM
Feb 2023

last week and EVERYONE in the office had a mask on. That made me happy. I also had one on as I have not stopped wearing one since this whole thing started. I would imagine it is harder and harder on the medical profession to keep people in masks as we are such a divided nation now.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
6. Went to mine in October and nobody was masked
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 08:31 PM
Feb 2023

NM was up to 95% with the first shot, so when the CDC said it was OK to stop wearing them, we did.

We went from nearly 100% masked to few people masked practically overnight.

And no, I didn't catch anything.

SheltieLover

(59,599 posts)
3. Nobody here wears masks.
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 04:17 PM
Feb 2023

Had an er procedure. Dr., anesthesiologist, 2 assistants (nurses?). Not one wore a mask!

But then, they threw my shoes in a plastic bag & tossed it onto the gurnee & wheeled me into the procedure room.

I spent 14 hours sitting in er waiting. NONE of the staff had masks on. Very few patients did.

I love my 3M N95s.

Shithole Tennessee.

rsdsharp

(10,115 posts)
4. No one at my local doctor's office wears masks -- except my wife and me.
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 04:46 PM
Feb 2023

And yet, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, everybody is masked.

snowybirdie

(5,627 posts)
5. Hubby and I
Sun Feb 19, 2023, 07:20 PM
Feb 2023

Went to a lung doc last month. No masks anywhere, in patients or staff except us. Never went back. Medical malpractice in my book.

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