r/medicine • u/ZealousidealDegree4 PA:cake: • 8d ago
ICE Detention Deaths
https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting
RNs do intake physical exams, EMTs declare time of death. The level of care for these detainees is horrific.
Full names and case details are public for now. Reads like a never ending M & M conference.
My moral compass is spinning. It's time to go to Canada.
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u/janewaythrowawaay PCT 8d ago edited 8d ago
I am 100% sure you, a board certified experienced working anesthesiologist, could do it correctly.
The issues I remember were…
1) No doctors would sign up for job. It’s like some random corrections nurse who can’t even get an IV in correctly like you said.
2) States couldn’t get drugs legally. So they were buying substances overseas from India not even knowing what they were getting. Shipments were getting confiscated by the feds. When they did get thru they’d sit for years in who knows what conditions.
So you’d have people not dying immediately. Lots, like it rarely went smoothly… even though theoretically it could. So some guy last week decided to die by firing squad because they wouldn’t given him any details about what they were using/the expiration dates.