Asklemmy

The problem is that nurses and doctors aren't having "easy days" and if they are understaffed because of something that is not plannable, eg illness or mass casualty events, then it is critically important that they are not expected to be overworked.

Healthcare staff are already (for the most part) being pushed to their absolute limits, with very high rates of burnout.

I think the point of the OP is not to advocate taking away people's healthcare, but rather asking for society to be more understanding of healthcare professionals when delays are necessary to save other people's lives.

Remember that we generally as a society are fighting an uphill battle to even pay decent wages to the few staff we do have, let alone expand staffing. So while we should fight for adequate staffing, that requires people to be prepared to pay for it (through healthcare cost or increased taxes/insurance fees), and in the meantime, don't blame doctors and nurses when they don't have time in their 12 hour+ days for every elective procedure because someone in the unit got sick.

Because adding more staffing is really hard and will take a very long time even if we started today.

We still should be working for that ideally today, but in terms of immediate actions taking away/delaying healthcare is something that can be done today

it's actually very sad that your post gets the most upvotes, it simply shows how disconnected, entitled and delusional you and those who upvote you are regarding healthcare.

Nothing surprises me anymore.

You don't seem to understand that people have lives to live and not everyone has the luxury of pretending to be an armchair doctor or nurse like you. If you've never worked a 12 hour shift without pauses, with people blaming you for things you cannot change nor are your fault, with people trying to punch you and raising your voice when they feel inconvenienced you should shut up.

Go back to your ivory tower. No wonder nurses are looking for alternatives elsewhere.

happy downvoting