Cosmetic surgeries continue through Covid
Even though the health system is hurting, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals are still performing cosmetic surgeries.
Supposing someone books in for a serious cosmetic procedure, and it goes badly. They crash and have to be resuscitated, they need more extensive support than a private cosmetic facility can offer, so they have to be taken to a regular hospital. Do they get this for free on the public system, given that they undertook the risk voluntarily and not out of medical need?
Joey 10:21 on 2021-01-14 Permalink
Why wouldn’t they? Would you prefer that the Ministry of Health set a list of risky activities that negate your participation in our universal healthcare system? Can you imagine what that would be like? If you break your leg mountain climbing, should you have to pay for your surgery? After all, you undertook the risk voluntarily.
Kate 10:30 on 2021-01-14 Permalink
I take your point, but booking surgery is a spot where you can really pin down that risk. Maybe the people doing it should also have to pay for insurance in case of a poor outcome. I wince at the idea that a public ER space should be taken for free by someone whose butt lift went badly.
Alison Cummins 13:40 on 2021-01-14 Permalink
I would hope that expenses would be covered by the clinic’s insurance.
I would also hope that nobody’s getting cosmetic procedures that require general anesthesia, for the time being.
[goes off to read article]
Mark Côté 13:44 on 2021-01-14 Permalink
Spoiler: they are.
Alison Cummins 13:56 on 2021-01-14 Permalink
[having read article]
Yup. They are doing general anesthesia.
That said, the article was a little short on stats and detail, being written for maximum scandalous effect.
One person said the clinics are running at full capacity; another said that nurses are less available so they are slowing down.
This discrepancy could possibly be resolved if they are staying open by doing more things that don’t require GA and fewer things that do.