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My dad could still be alive, but he's not

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367 points DustinEchoes | 1 comments | 13 Nov 25 02:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ugh123 ◴[13 Nov 25 02:41 UTC] No.45909860[source]▶
>my dad is dead, because his family members were too naive to know that the thing they were instructed to do by the state was a false thing.

We're told a lot of things by "officials" not because it's correct, but because it holds the least legal liability for official parties involved, especially anything involving healthcare. These officials also sometimes include doctors, who work to protect themselves and the system first, and then patients.

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2muchcoffeeman ◴[13 Nov 25 02:54 UTC] No.45909954[source]▶
This is very conspiratorial thinking.

Do you really think that in a high stress situation you’re going to make the best decisions?

Do you really think health workers are all concerned about legalities first?

Not moving a patient unless you explicitly know how is probably right the vast majority of the time. Sometimes that’s wrong, but how are you going to get the entire public to understand what the right situation is?

It’s so easy looking at a single case in hindsight. May we all have the ability to make the right choices all the time.

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1. wk_end ◴[13 Nov 25 03:16 UTC] No.45910119[source]▶
It's not that health workers are always thinking about legality; it's that they're following policies either written by people thinking about legality or re-written by people in response to legality, i.e. they got sued and changed the policy in light of that.