CarolAnn
12-08-2007, 04:21 AM
How quickly we discover how little planning has gone into "SHTF" situations!
I was scheduled for a stess test for my heart last week, but the hospital called to reschedule because they ran out of the isotope that they were planning to inject into me. Huh? Isotope? As in radioactive isotope? YEP! And now I've read that there arent ANY available and won't be available for the rescheduled test in two weeks, either.
THe ONE place that supplied the whole world is closed for maintenance and it seems that no one planned for this!
http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=146968
It's just one single supplier of one single item for a particular test . . . but how many things are we taking for granted that could disappear with no warning?
I'm not too thrilled to discover what all my test entailed anyway - so now at least I have time to research it and make a more informed decision about wheather that's what I want done to my body at all.
But it DOES bring up some interesting questions - like who the heck is in charge of letting health care providers know about something like this? *:o
What other medical technology is going to disappear because one single supplier for the whole world goes off line?
I was scheduled for a stess test for my heart last week, but the hospital called to reschedule because they ran out of the isotope that they were planning to inject into me. Huh? Isotope? As in radioactive isotope? YEP! And now I've read that there arent ANY available and won't be available for the rescheduled test in two weeks, either.
THe ONE place that supplied the whole world is closed for maintenance and it seems that no one planned for this!
http://www.nationalpost.com/rss/story.html?id=146968
It's just one single supplier of one single item for a particular test . . . but how many things are we taking for granted that could disappear with no warning?
I'm not too thrilled to discover what all my test entailed anyway - so now at least I have time to research it and make a more informed decision about wheather that's what I want done to my body at all.
But it DOES bring up some interesting questions - like who the heck is in charge of letting health care providers know about something like this? *:o
What other medical technology is going to disappear because one single supplier for the whole world goes off line?