collapse of health care

I guess medical collapse doesn’t “collapse” from “not collapsing” to “collapsing” with a simple “bang, boom, poof”. It’s more like a gradual increase in the frequency of dysfunction.

Until a few months ago, a patient with a sudden change could access any of the core hospitals by pressing the “call an ambulance” option. In the past few weeks, we have been getting a lot of calls with the option, “The ambulance is here, but we can’t find a place to receive it. What should we do?” and there have been rare occasions when I have been called back and I honestly wondered what I was going to do.

https://twitter.com/nishio/status/1334485866715078659

• False dichotomy

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