From the Daily Mail, because American news won’t cover this.
A frontline nurse treating coronavirus in New York has claimed that patients are ‘literally being murdered’ by medical negligence and mismanagement every day, but that ‘nobody cares because they’re all minorities.’
Speaking out in despair 37-year-old Nicole Sirotek described work at the frontline as like ‘going into the f***ing twilight zone,’ and told of hospital units in such disarray that she was once assigned to care for a patient already in a body bag.
The mother-of-two from Elko, Nevada was one of hundreds of medics to travel to New York as the virus surged.
But according to the nurse’s emotional video hospitals are no longer swamped as they once were and there are plenty of nurses in the wards on which she has worked.
There is now, she said, ‘no reason’ for the deaths that she has witnessed other than incompetence, mismanagement and a seemingly reckless lack of care on the part of some hospital personnel.
This is the first whistle blower I’ve heard of regarding patients in New York.
I can’t say if this is reflective of the majority of care or just one hospital.
What in an say is that her accusations are terrible.
She told of one patient who died while waiting for an X-ray because her warning that the anesthesiologist had misplaced a ventilator tube was ignored. She said, ‘Literally only one side of his chest is inflating. He dies.’
She described how a resident doctor defibrillated a patient with an already beating heart. She recalled, ‘The resident starts doing chest compressions which is not what you do. I run to stop him. He f***ing defibrillates him and kills him. I was literally saying, ”Can you stop him he’s going to kill that patient?” And the director of nursing just shook his head and I turned around and he killed the dude.’
Among other horrific incidents she listed are a nurse who placed a feeding tube into a patient’s lungs, a nurse who administered a lethal dose of short acting insulin when she confused it for long acting and another who fell asleep at her station while a patient’s blood pressure dropped without notice causing permanent mental impairment.
She told of one patient who choked to death on his own blood when the anesthesiologist ruptured his esophagus trying to intubate him and another whose lungs were ‘blown out’ by a wrongly set ventilator.
That is almost unbelievable. But without corroboration, it’s just an accusation.
I will say, that given the horrors that are being reported in New York elderly care facilities, forcing them to take COVID patients, turning them into viral death centers, this might be really happening in poor area hospitals.
Anyone want to bet this has been going on for a long time, but only brought to light now by the out of state volunteers?
Something doesn’t feel right. I can’t put my finger on it, but my spidey-sense is going off ever so slightly.
Do you know what they call a nurse who drops a dime on that sort of shenanigans?
Unemployable.
and if it would only make any sort of difference…..
Really, what sort of hospital wants a nurse with that sort o strong moral compass as well as clinical smarts?
None. Not a one of ’em.