To the editor: I am a critical care physician assistant. PAs are medical practitioners, trained like generalist physicians; we diagnose and treat most illnesses and conditions. We are licensed to provide education, perform procedures, prescribe medications, order and interpret medical studies and create treatment plans. (“L.A. County outlines wrenching moves to ration healthcare if COVID-19 hospital crisis worsens,” Dec. 19)
Currently there are more than 13,000 PAs in California who are being excluded from pandemic service. This is an egregious oversight. I am trained in critical care, I work in an intensive care unit every day, and I am not allowed to contribute my knowledge and skill set to pandemic victims.
USA TODAY
In the four days that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was treated for COVID-19 at Georgetown University Hospital last week, more than 7,000 Americans died from the disease.
Yet Giuliani, who is now President Donald Trump s personal attorney, was healthy enough to call WABC Radio from the hospital to make an appalling assertion: “If it wasn’t me, I wouldn’t have been put in a hospital frankly.”
Life-and-death situations bring out the best in some people and the worst in others, particularly those who would emulate the men who tried to elbow aside the women and children when the Titanic was sinking and the lifeboats were filling. The coronavirus has already taken a disproportionate toll on lower-income people who can t work from home, and blatant favoritism in treatment is a recipe for social unrest.
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