Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Doctors: These are the hardest scenes to see in an ICU amid record case surges" video.

  1. Dear Mr Lemon and the front line doctors, First, Thank you Don for bringing your country up-to-speed as well as letting us know across the world of the battle for the soul of your nation's health. I am an artist and inventor and what comes to my mind as as possible solution for if and when hospitals become overthrown with too many patients. Is this possible? Why not put together the equipment needed to keep a patient alive and have really sick patients stay home? I know this sounds out-of-bounds, but if retired doctors and nurses could be recruited to stop by patients who are bed ridden in their own homes, it might lighten the load for the overflowing hospitals. It would of course require portable equipment that could be set up. Also, by online communication, family members wearing protective gear -- if available -- could follow instructions from health professsionals. It probably sounds too difficult to do something like this, but if hospitals run out of beds, and make-shift hospitals too, maybe the thing to do is use portable equipment to at least keep patients alive at their homes, have virtual doctors instruct the family members, or have retired doctors, fire fighters, nurses, police personnel be used to administer the care? It may save lives and save doctors from burning out with their endless shifts. Lastly, what can be done to offer psychological support to over-worked doctors and nurses? No one is proposing aid to the people on the front lines and who are at risk every day. Again, this may sound silly, but couldn't massages be offered, psychological counselling, sessions with professionals who deal in positive mind-control activities, lessons in visualization? In short, the doctors need to be looked after as well. It's an opinion.
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