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ktxhopem3276 t1_iyae7xh wrote

The officials at the hospitals that make these policies are put in the awful position to decide if your need to say goodbye was more important than potentially spreading the virus to vulnerable immune compromised people also in the hospital for treatment. Your post sounds overly judgmental of the staff enforcing the rules that they have no control over. You come across as entitled and the type of person that doesn’t think the rules apply to everyone and you are special because you were a pharmacy tech. I hope this attitude is only due to your grief of losing a loved one. The policies around Covid and family visitors in the hospital can be debated but the attitude of your letter just isn’t helping your case.

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SnooOwls6015 t1_iyc7egm wrote

I work as a bedside nurse in a different hospital and I agree that the policy is ridiculous. They let people visit covid patients assuming they don proper PPE.

If this had happened in the summer of 2020 when things were less understood, I could have given some leeway for people "just doing their job" but in 2022 we've learned enough to protect people while still allowing for compassion.

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ktxhopem3276 t1_iycm3qe wrote

They allow visitors if they pass a Covid screening. He failed that screening due to prolonged contact with Covid positive person.

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SnooOwls6015 t1_iycqowl wrote

They barely screen patients, I'm not sure why they'd screen visitors.

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ktxhopem3276 t1_iyd4kym wrote

That sounds risky. I think the screening is just a few questions like have you had a fever or had contact with anyone sick. It seems prudent for a level 1 trauma hospital with 500 beds to be extra careful. Even my dentist is still taking forehead temperatures before doing an exam.

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SnooOwls6015 t1_iyezs0f wrote

It for sure is risky. But most patients don't even get tested unless they have respiratory symptoms or if they're being discharged to a facility that requires testing. Administration cares about the bottom line, not patient/employee safety.

I can't even count the number of times I've cared for a patient for days to weeks only to have them test positive when the time came to send them to rehab.

Smaller practices (like a dentist) tend to be more vigilant in testing because the people they're exposing are mainly the staff and it hurts the bottom line if they get sick. In hospitals it hurts the bottom line to know people have covid because then you have to isolate them. If you don't know you can put them in a room with someone else.

I work on a unit that does chemo and we regularly have covid positive patients on our unit, no matter how much we scream about it being unsafe.

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Egraypgh t1_iyb8r5v wrote

These policies are to protect the hospitals from lawsuits. They were more worried in the end about this family suing for emotional damage and making a stink that’s why they snuck this guy in. These policies don’t have much to do with healthcare more to do with the legal system as far as I’m aware we still have not decided in this country whether you can sue for catching Covid. A true quarantine would’ve tested people before they ever let them in the door to begin with. Not oh have you been exposed to someone after you’ve been there for days then we must single you out. PS this is a hospital on the northside that treats homeless people there is still a huge amount of Hep C spreading around the homeless community I would be more worried about catching that then c19 at this hospital.

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ktxhopem3276 t1_iybclcx wrote

Hep c isn’t an airborn virus like Covid and not likely to spread in a hospital. The legal risk for the hospital is a result of the health risk. If there was no health risk there really isn’t much room for a negligence lawsuit. The hospital would be at legal risk if they did something negligent like allowing someone at high risk of having Covid riding elevators and walking by other patients rooms full of vulnerable patients many old or immunocompromised. I don’t think there is much chance of a lawsuit for emotion damage either because the hospital was taking reasonable precautions. It is more likely they caved to just get op to stop consuming their time with complaining

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AthensAtNight t1_iyap46e wrote

You and this response are disgusting. I hope you’re not in healthcare.

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ktxhopem3276 t1_iyaqhmt wrote

People in healthcare have to follow the rules that are made by experts who weigh the risks and benefits of each policy to maximize the number of lives saved. It does seem disgusting but it is the real world. I’m disgusted that the op lied about being exposed to Covid to get into the hospital

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ThatKaylesGuy t1_iyb4l2y wrote

I hope you monitor very small kids or work with puppies, and that's it.

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