Bill Levinson

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1. Iron Lung vs. Ventilator

   Bill Levinson replied to Bill Levinson's topic in COVID

   That makes sense to me too, then. There is obviously a difference between polio patients and COVID-19 patients. It sounds like negative pressure will not expand the aveoli, then.

2. Can I Refuse to Work If My Facility Does Not Have Proper Personal Protective Equipment?

   Bill Levinson replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in COVID

   If hospital administrators are demanding that health care professionals work without adequate PPE, then perhaps they should set an example by accompanying doctors and nurses, while wearing whatever PPE is available to the doctors and nurses, while vi...

3. Iron Lung vs. Ventilator

   Bill Levinson posted a topic in COVID

   I am an engineer and not a health care professional, so I'd appreciate some feedback from people on the medical side. There is widespread concern about the shortage of ventilators, and also an observation that the ventilators themselves can cause dam...

4. Covid-19: Would you ever hire me if you saw I quit during this crisis?

   Bill Levinson replied to ScrubberDucky's topic in COVID

   I am not in management but I think very poorly of a management team that forced you to use your vacation time to recover from an illness you apparently got while on the job. Also, it is conceivable that you could have a worker's compensation claim fo...

5. Recruit coronavirus survivors to help health care providers?

   Bill Levinson posted a topic in COVID

   I am not a health care professional and I don't know if this would work, but would there be circumstances under which people who have recovered from coronavirus be hired by hospitals to assist health care workers? The idea is that, if they are immune...

6. Can I Refuse to Work If My Facility Does Not Have Proper Personal Protective Equipment?

   Bill Levinson replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in COVID

   My opinion (not legal advice, or formal engineering or OH&S advice) is that medical personnel who choose to work in a COVID-19 environment are going above and beyond the call of duty. With regard to employers who tell health care workers they can...

7. Does Death Have A Smell?

   Bill Levinson replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

   I think Oscar the Cat can tell by odor when somebody is going to die.

8. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

   Bill Levinson replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Relations

   They ought to be able to train dogs to detect C-diff. Dogs can even detect certain forms of cancer (due to the trace odors exhaled by the patient) as well as diabetes. Well trained dogs could conceivably screen for some conditions, although of course...

9. The Patient I Failed

   Bill Levinson replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Relations

   The initial decision to give CPR was correct because a living will takes effect only if the person is terminally ill. In other words, if somebody with a living will but no terminal illness collapses from a heart attack, CPR is given. The living will ...

10. Brian Short News

    Bill Levinson replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I am sorry to hear this; it comes as an unpleasant surprise.

11. Does Death Have A Smell?

    Bill Levinson replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe this is what Oscar the Cat smells.

12. Does Death Have A Smell?

    Bill Levinson replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have heard that dogs can smell certain kinds of cancer. The cells doubtlessly emit a chemical that is not found in healthy tissue. I have never heard of a person being able to do it, though.

13. Does Death Have A Smell?

    Bill Levinson replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat

14. Does Death Have A Smell?

    Bill Levinson replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oscar the Cat is famous for being able to predict when somebody is going to die. It is quite possible that he smells some kind of biological change.

15. How much walking do you have to do every day?

    Bill Levinson replied to Bill Levinson's topic in General Nursing

    Ford would indeed have done this so fewer nurses could care for more patients--but without reducing quality by reducing the time that the nurses could spend with the patients. Suppose, for example, that proper care for a group of patients requires 30...