I am thankful for my mom’s doctor who treated her
with the proper cocktail of medicines, HCQ, Z-pack, oxygen, and zinc and she
survived her bout with pneumonia. But I wish some general practitioners and
specialists in my town would get back to real medicine instead of hiding behind
a computer and tele-pretending to practice medicine. Stop being afraid of your
patients and please make eye contact with them, they are not body snatchers.
Among
the numerous negative consequences for the survivors of the Chinese Covid-19
epidemic is the change in the practice of medicine and the lack of care
extended to the rest of the population that did not get infected but needed
medical care for so many other ailments that went untreated during the forced
lockdown at the state and local levels.
The
media kept lying to us every day how hospitals are overwhelmed with sick people
yet thousands of nurses and doctors were furloughed, some were hired back, some
weren’t, and others decided to retire instead of fighting the new twilight zone
medical practice with all its CDC imposed infection controls and non-medical
“social distancing,” arbitrarily set at 6 feet.
HIPAA-compliant tele-conferencing
programs
For
the last five months, this “social distancing” has revealed itself as
purposeful “social isolation” often going as far as forcing people to park
their cars every other space in the parking lot, or use every other commode or
sink in a public restroom.
We
should not complain, at least some restrooms were open and we did not have to
search in vain. In parks, they’ve closed them in April and the governor ordered
port-o-potties brought in which the park rangers sprayed with Lysol in the
morning in order to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The public restrooms, we
were told, would have been too hard to sanitize.
And
anglers could no longer fish on the pier, it was decreed, they had to scatter
around the river bank. They promptly congregated under the railroad bridge, six
feet apart or not, to share tall fishing tales.
People
already afraid for their lives and driven into a panic by the non-stop public
service announcements and the non-stop hyping of the casualties on all channels
and 24-hour cable news, became so afraid to leave their homes that a trip to
the “infectious” hospital was out of the question and suffered in silence
locked in their homes. A few suffered heart attacks and, if they were lucky,
survived to talk about it.
All
my doctors kept sending me emails and text messages informing me that they will
treat their patients now exclusively by various HIPAA-compliant
tele-conferencing programs online, no doubt tele-pretending to treat my
existing or future problems.
I
am supposed to take my own blood pressure, how many times a minute I breathe,
my oxygen intake at that moment, etc. Perhaps I need to buy other diagnostic
machines normally found in a doctor’s office like a frontal temperature
monitor, an EKG, and an oximeter. I draw the line at becoming my own
phlebotomist.
It
is sad to contemplate what would happen to our formerly stellar medical care
now that one politicized virus has changed entirely the face of our country,
including education, jobs, medical care, entertainment, travel, commerce, and
professional sports. Only politics remained as corrupt as ever.
I
can’t say that I will shed a tear for the demise of professional sports and of
their highly paid players, but I am saddened that Americans will die before
their time because of the lack of proper medical attention as the governors are
forcing us indoors to escape Covid-19 until the expensive vaccine comes out.
Additionally,
where will the rest of the world with large bank accounts come to treat their
complicated medical problems their socialized medical systems can’t fix, if the
best and the brightest American doctors and world-renowned surgeons are no
longer practicing normal medicine but tele-pretending care?
There
are still doctors out there replacing knees and setting broken bones and
performing other surgeries that improve people’s lives, but general
practitioners and some specialists are now switching their practice to
tele-work, never touching their patients. Is this the kind of medicine we want?
Perhaps
some of us are happier with this set up – no travel to someone’s office, no
contact, no wait, etc. Except on a recent tele-conference with one of my
doctors, I had to wait for her to show up online for more than an hour! A
canned message kept telling me that she is tending to another patient and I
should be patient.
We
will never know how many Americans suffered at home because they were too
afraid to go to a hospital for treatment, did not want to be on the Covid-19
tracing network and possibly home on an ankle bracelet if positive and refusing
to sign self-quarantine documents, or did not have elective surgery because
they were unable to find a doctor who would do the surgery they needed and thus
continued to suffer in pain and misery.
I
am thankful for my mom’s doctor who treated her with the proper cocktail of
medicines, HCQ, Z-pack, oxygen, and zinc and she survived her bout with
pneumonia. But I wish some general practitioners and specialists in my town
would get back to real medicine instead of hiding behind a computer and
tele-pretending to practice medicine. Stop being afraid of your patients and
please make eye contact with them, they are not body snatchers.
Dr. Ileana Johnson
Paugh -- Bio and Archives
Dr.
Ileana Johnson Paugh, Ileana Writes is a freelance writer,
author, radio commentator, and speaker. Her books, “Echoes of Communism”,
“Liberty on Life Support” and “U.N. Agenda 21: Environmental Piracy,”
“Communism 2.0: 25 Years Later” are available at Amazon in paperback and
Kindle.
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