Posted on Monday, December 28, 2020
COVID-19 has exposed many flaws in our healthcare system, especially in delivery of serious illness and end-of-life care. The U.S. continues to be hard hit by the virus, and numerous health care stakeholders, the government and the health care system has not adapted to meet patients’ needs during the crisis.
“We’ve been putting our elderly and disabled in solitary confinement for months, and that was understandable during the first few weeks where we didn’t understand anything about the virus or how to keep people safe. We saw entire units where elderly people and disabled people died, but now we know how to keep people safe,” said Atul Gawande, M.D., a surgeon, writer and public health leader, at the End Well event. “I myself have family with serious health issues and they need long term care, but we’re told we have to sign away the possibility that we’d ever see them again, that we’d ever hug them again and that’s just unacceptable. They won’t provide the [personal protective equipment (PPE)] and the training to make such things as possible, and that is outrageous.”
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