Today an elderly patient's daughter asked if I could guarantee that the blood I might need to give to the patient (in case the patient is actively bleeding out during the surgery, which had a pretty high chance of happening) is from a donor who hadn't been vaccinated against COVID.
Not gonna lie, I needed a moment to recover from that
There's been hesitation prior to patients getting bone marrow transplants that didn't exist before.
Typically you get all your childhood vaccines given to you again with new bone marrow.
When patients decline (still a tiny minority), some services then have to say well, we can't offer this too you, because the risk of dying is high and the resource is so finite. But it's the reality now.
I just can't.
We are practicing medicine in a country of cromagnons.
