” We just have 9 or 10 machines, and now we have over 30 clients that need them,” said one physician who handles an extensive care system in Queens but who wasn’t licensed to speak.
The term “rationing” is activating for political leaders, health authorities, and hospital executives, however the Queens and Brooklyn medical professionals unauthorized to speak both said they currently are, in impact, allocating dialysis care.
Fishbane, from Northwell Health, stated at his mostly rural medical facility network when patients on ventilators aren’t getting better– maybe they have other issues like dementia or metastatic cancer, but maybe they do not–” that leads to questions about need to dialysis be provided,” when their kidneys start to fail.
