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Hospital capacity could be exceeded.  I expect elective surgery to be curtailed soon in places, if not already happening.

Already happening in Illinois.

Do you remember when the Army Corps was out building hospitals for cities, at convention centers and such?

Yeah, me too.

Most cities took them all down.

Oops.

Those are just beds, the real problem is staffing them.  We can't just go build new docs and nurses.

No, but you could repurpose the ones you are putting out of business when elective things are cancelled.

no, but the orthopedic surgeon and all the staff can be moved to COVID beds.

Or just to regular beds. Let the ICU people deal with the more severe cases.

My friend in Boston is an OB/GYN.  He told me in late March he was being "alerted" for COVID duty.  He said he couldn't stop women from having babies and needing checkups, but he could certainly serve as needed, and would.  I don't think he did, he never mentioned it to me if he did.

Might be a last line of defense.

A specialist is still an MD, though he might be rusty.

Of course not, but we wouldn't be relying on an OB/GYN to manage highly technical COVID cases.  He'd be overseeing nurses in effect and dealing with patients who are "out of the woods" or "not yet serious" so the Internists and experts can focus.

I never did take a class in inorganic chemistry, somehow I skated out of that.  I had to read up on it at one point to pass some cumes and probably learned as much as taking a course, and then forgot 99.999% of it.

The Pre-Med students I taught in labs were pretty bad about "learn and forget".

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Fascinating.