In the label ‘adult failure to thrive,’ medicine reveals its own failures

(By Eric Boodman for STAT)

The death certificate made everything worse. Seth Fischer was already angry: a physical feeling, an overwhelming internal buzz. He would go for runs, only to find himself passing the white bulk of mobile morgues, refrigeration whirring — and his mind would end up back on his dad, in respiratory distress, dying of Covid or Alzheimer’s, he’d never know which. He’d requested a post-mortem coronavirus test, and had been told there weren’t enough. I don’t want to be offensive, someone from the health department had said, but he’s already dead, what good’s it going to do? Continue reading here…

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