#health care worker

[odinsravendutchess]

Picture of my cracked windshield.

It happened at 8:50 am yesterday morning on my way home from the grocery store.

Before going to the grocery store, I was at work and the store was on the way home. I live in Kansas, it was basically a blizzard and -5 degrees F outside.

I was raised in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wyoming so just another Thursday for me.

A lot of accidents all over the city I live in because people in Kansas try to be “nice” by stopping all traffic to let people out into traffic or they legit want to do 60 on snow and ice.

Gotta love it when your Jeep is a furnace inside so your windshield cracks!

[cindymariesworld]

Just when you think you've gotten your $hit together, boom. You find yourself sitting alone, at your new empty kitchen table for two, in your new apartment, after starting your new carrier, eating tear infused spagetti for one with two week old jar sauce that's been sitting in your refrigerator... And... And you can't help but wonder... "Am I doing the right thing this time? This is what I wanted right? This is what I worked so hard for, why am I so lonely & sad then?" Is this what I fought so hard for? To second guess my growth process? To be so alone because cutting off everyone in my life was essential for my growth process? Because I hit rock bottom, and am finally clawing my way back to the top, is the price to pay now this? Is it good? Bad? Maybe I don't have my $hit together after all...

[thebibliosphere]

Whenever I talk about the medical neglect and ableism I've encountered as a victim of the healthcare system, there's always some cockwaffle who feels entitled to come into my inbox and make the argument of "not all doctors" while talking about how "people like them" (because it's always someone in a field of medicine who does this) are doing their best and it's really hard because so many people fake being ill to get on welfare (Yikes), but like, yeah, obviously #not all doctors, because if all doctors were negligent, bullying scum bags, I'd be dead.

But here's the thing: while I truly believe that the majority of doctors are doing their best in a system stacked against them and their patients, their presence does not negate the mass harm caused by the bad ones. And there are far more bad ones than you realize.

Fuck, John Oliver literally did a segment on this last week:

Yes, the truly bad, malicious doctors are in the minority. Most are just horrifically burned out and fighting a losing battle against a system, killing both them and their patients through a lack of funding and resources and profound overwork.

But the malicious ones do exist, and they will go out of their way to harm patients who don't kowtow to them.

I almost lost my life because when I was in my early twenties, I told a doctor I didn't think she was listening to me, and I disagreed with her assessment of my mental health (she was not a mental health doctor, and I was there for heart palpitations and chronic pain). She retaliated by putting "non-compliant" in my file.

There was also a fun little "doesn't show respect" note too that lives rent-free in my head because I know I wasn't rude. I was polite. I just didn't agree with her, and my refusal to accept her off-handed comment that "you probably have bipolar or BPD" (again, I was there for heart palpitations and chronic pain) meant I was "refusing care."

I wasn't. I just refused to be slapped with a mood/personality disorder when I was there because I kept fucking fainting when I stood up.

(Spoiler alert: it was dysautonomia)

That "non-compliant" marker followed me around for years. It followed me across an ocean and effectively ensured that any doctor I saw was going to treat me like absolute dogshit because no one wants to help Difficult Patients. It wasn't until I was so undeniably ill, literally on the brink of death, that anyone helped me.

I'm alive because of a good doctor. And all the good ones that came after him because of him.

So, I know they exist. You don't have to tell me that.

But I really fucking need you to acknowledge the bad ones and that you're part of a system with a long, long history of abusing minorities and vulnerable people. I need you to acknowledge that because it's the only way we're going to survive this godforsaken nightmare and make things better.

So yeah, #notalldoctors, but if you feel the need to say that because someone talking about being literally left to die by the medical system hurts your feelings, I'm going to have to ask you to take a step back and ask yourself if you're going into medicine for the right reasons.

Namely: do you want to help people, even the "difficult" ones?

Even the ones who might disagree with you?

Even if they're on welfare?

Even if they'll never get "better" in a way that means "cured"?

Just a thought. But hey, what do I know. I'm just someone who experienced hemolytic anemia because doctors kept telling me I was anxious and needed to exercise more 🤷‍♀️.

[chimiepictures]

The Ice Cream May Be Dangerous, 6.5/10

[politijohn]

Source

Let’s go! Unionize!

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Stephen Millies

Malcolm X famously said, “show me a capitalist and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.” That’s literally true for U.S. capitalism.

The United States exported $37 billion worth of blood last year, making it the country’s ninth-largest export. That’s $9 billion more than what Uncle Sam got from selling 48 million metric tons of soybeans. 

The Economist — an 181-year-old mouthpiece of the British and U.S. financial aristocracy — thinks that’s great and wants to increase the bloodsucking.

[awesomecooperlove]

🧬💉⚰️

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom You should not constantly have to fight for basic level medical care. You shouldn't need to be highly educated to be able to navigate your way out of bad care. Privilege should not be a variable in care. You deserve better. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon x5 7:17 PM · Jun 14, 2024

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[marshvlovestv]

Potentially controversial opinion but

The mashup came up on my YouTube recommended and I think I listened to it four or five times in a row whilst rotating the current blorbos.

[valentinitirose]

This is a more normal post. Just wanted to say how proud I am of myself for getting into shape. A year and a half ago I was 180lbs and 5ft tall. Now I am 112 and 5ft tall. Also I put this outfit together because my gf likes me to dress more dykish sometimes. Enjoy 😊

[slothlifepolitics]

I saw a post about someones plans for after the revolution, and I’m begging leftist to get serious for 5 minutes.  Y’all talk about and predict a revolution with the same reliability and trustworthiness as evangelicals talk about armageddon. US Leftist can’t keep their shit together enough to wear masks and to help poor people get masks because they are expensive.  But sure a revolution is going to happen any day now. In the US many disabled people like myself are now homebound because we can’t safely go outside.  Abled leftist admittedly refuse to do anything to change that.  They are to busy posting quotes from long dead white men, about ideas those dead white men stole from indigenous peoples. If US leftist can’t cope with something like covid, how the fuck do you expect to pull off a revolution?

[cranquis]

I appreciate you trying to help people with medicine

I received this the same day I reblogged that awesome/depressing post about zombies and pandemics -- and I really appreciate your appreciation.

As the perceived value of professionally-trained healthcare workers has dropped in the US, the subjective value of even the smallest of genuine expressions of gratitude has skyrocketed!

[queerofthedagger]

me, a fool, repressing the knowledge of exactly how long 15 hour shifts are: oh I'm sure it'll be fine, just one more shift to go, really how long can 15 hours be

this shift: i am going to end you and your entire blood line

[yarrowleef]

#17 Snailshade

no one really knows what this guys deal is bc he doesn't like or talk to anyone. Honestly the only reason he stays in RiverClan instead of fucking off to be a loner is for the security. He prefers vanishing early to patrol by himself, which he usually can do as even the deputy occasionally forgets he exists for days at a time.

[the-blossica-fan]

Actors AU:

Mercuria has, at the very least, smoked weed or had a brownie.

Funnily enough, she's cut back on both of them after meeting with her co-worker Matilda...

In an interview, she just shrugged, saying, "Matilda isn't very fond of the smell, so I didn't want to trouble her."

And when it was learnt that Kanjira had started to talk with her again... needless to say, online forums took to the skies lol

(Don't ask why kanjira has some of the edits saved on her phone lol)

I bet she had met diggers before in some sort of meeting. Though she was probably more fond of the brownies or cookies, smoked a little bit but not so much.

Matilda definitely hates the smell of those things and doesn't like her fellow coworker to be smoking weed or consuming any sort of drugs so they had a long path to take.

Yeah turns out they became really close behind the scenes because of this!

Mercuria: "I wasn't very fond of acting before, but now, life has given it a second meaning to it. Shining like it was always meant to be."

Matilda: "Please don't look at me while saying it, people are going to get the wrong idea"

Matilda certainly does her best to help Mercuria find another, more healthy alternative to her slight addiction, and Mercuria is happy to oblige.

Though, Kanjira is a big fan of Matilda so, she was probably a bit discouraged by her sudden closeness to Mercuria after meeting each other for such a short amount of time. She and Matilda hadn't even gotten that close! (She's oblivious to their advances)

Kanjira ends up getting along with Mercuria pretty well, though it took a couple pushes to finally have her interact in a non-bitter way. The three of them hang out often due to their closeness but apparently, these two idiots (Kanjira and Matilda) don't seem to catch up on the romantic air surrounding them.

Someone on the internet: Love triangle in Reverse 1999 film set?! Mercuria seems to be really close to both, Matilda and Kanjira. Could this be the start of a love triangle in set?!

Mercuria trying to hit on both: ...My advances are not working the way I intended.