Dr. Lucky Tran 
It’s unacceptable that patients have to beg doctors to take basic infection control precautions like wearing a mask, just so they can get healthcare safely in the middle of a pandemic #KeepMasksInHealthcare
Patients don’t need to ask doctors to wash their hands, or wear gloves, or sterilize their equipment. Why should patients need to demand their doctors take adequate precautions like wearing a mask against an widespread airborne virus that causes death and chronic illness?
Healthcare workers don’t decide whether to wear gloves or sterilize equipment based on how many people are hospitalized. They just do it because it protects patients, and every patient has the right to get healthcare without becoming more sick. It should be the same with masks.
PedestrianError 
@luckytran Gloves are so much more annoying to wear than a well-fitting mask. If they can wear gloves for every patient, surely they can manage a mask.
saligari@PedestrianError @luckytran It's really not though. A mask is a lot more annoying and certainly an obstacle when trying to communicate. I'm not saying that's enough of a reason not to use a mask if it is beneficial, but minimizing the issue isn't helping. There are reasons that people, including medical staff, didn't & don't wear masks all the time and it's not that they just don't care.
Also, in this whole thread I don't see anyone mentioning air filtering.
@saligari @luckytran Ok, which PPE is more annoying to wear is a matter of opinion/personal experience.
As for ventilation, it is extremely important, but most health care facilities haven’t put in place major, facility-wide upgrades to it and if they have, they’re not adequately sharing air quality data with patients and visitors. Removal of mask requirements in public/waiting areas of medical facilities should have been coordinated with air quality upgrades and data transparency.