Is anyone else seeing ED volumes come roaring back, but with sicker and more medically complex patients resulting in higher admission rates and more critical care time? What is driving this?
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Is it due to the rise in telemed and minute clinics doing dumb stuff like telling people with cardiogenic wheezing that they will be fixed with a Z-pak so they eventually come in with fulminant heart failure? I just saw this.
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Are people still delaying care out of fear? Or due to loss of insurance coverage? I feel like this has to be contributing still, but the economy is recovering and the people I see in public seem to be back to business as usual.
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Do we have a larger proportion of people in our society with new medical frailty after surviving COVID? Any other reasons?
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