The Patients Left Behind

Prognosis: Breakthrough

• Episode: The Patients Left Behind
• Website: Prognosis: Breakthrough
• Feed URL: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BLM8995439705
• Duration: 00:15:40
• Published: 2020-04-22 23:14

The pandemic is putting care on hold for a lot of people with other serious health conditions, like cancer. Doctors are delaying procedures and surgeries in order to save resources like hospital beds and ventilators for Covid-19 patients, and prevent the infection from spreading. Emma Court reports on the difficult choices doctors are forced to make, and the danger that we're creating another health care crisis. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com