#working in healthcare

[miss-what-a-d0ll]

✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗ 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

[princess-kurosaki]

WORK RANT ⬇️

okay, so i am a Paramedic and I work in the ER, last night we had a patient that had severe autism, he was non verbal as well and got abandoned by his group home. it made me soooooooo mad. because if you sign up to care for someone then that’s exactly what you do. if it becomes too much for you there’s steps you take both legally and medical care wise to rid yourself of the responsibility. you do not drop your resident off because he’s being aggressive and decide to never come back.

you just have to put things into perspective, if you couldn’t speak or communicate the way everyone else around you does would you or would you not be “aggressive”? OF COURSE YOU WOULD. imagine being ripped from the comfort of your home and thrown into a hospital a LEVEL 1 TRAUMA ER (meaning we get the worst of the worst because we have the staff and equipment to handle it) overnight, and you are non verbal and autistic. can you fucking imagine how overstimulated he was? and if you’ve ever seen or been to an ER you know how bright, loud, and busy it is. 3 things most autistic kids don’t like.

it was just crazy to me, i’m not saying it doesn’t get hard because i’m sure it does. my job seems impossible sometimes and i’ve only done it for 4 months. but never in a million years could i see myself as a company who is trained and trains others to care for people with these disorders and disabilities abandoning a resident.

we ended up having to call the adult protective services and charges got filed against the group home but idk.. it was just awful. i can’t imagine doing that to someone i signed up to care for.

so if you plan on working with or for a group home for children or adults with diagnosed disorders or disabilities please make sure your heart is in it 120%. they are people just like us and literally no fucking one deserves to be ripped from their home in the middle of the night and abandoned at a hospital due to behaviors they can’t control.

[raepritewrites]

an average conversation I have multiple times a week answering the phone at the hospital

Me: thank you for calling the outpatient lab at (hospital name), how may I help you?

Person who has never woken up on the right side of the bed ever: I want my lab results

Me: okay sir/ma'am, I apologize but I actually can't give out results over the phone for security reasons. I can tell you if they've been completed and sent to the doctor yet, if you'd like?

Person growing more irritated by the millisecond: no, just tell me the results of my tests

Me: unfortunately, I'm not able to provide you with that information. To get your results your options are to speak with your doctor, come to the hospital to sign a release form with medical records for a print out, or you can use our app on your phone or computer to access your results

Person who is now borderline yelling at me: why won't you just tell me what my results are?!

Me, taking a very deep breath: I actually don't have access to your results, and even if I did, it is actually against the law and I would lose my job if I gave out that information over the phone

Person who is in fact now screaming: I want to know my test results!

Me: I understand what you want and I have told you three different ways that you can get those results. Unless you have another question I can help you with, I hope you have a great day

Person: TELL ME MY-

[maniccrystalhippie]

I need to share this very odd interaction I had while working night shift last night:

*we are literally standing outside of a trauma room waiting for the patient to be wheeled in by EMS*

Security: OH wow, it's weird to see someone here that's not in scrubs. What do you do here?

Me: I'm a scribe

Security: So that's what position you like to play?

*I am confused and trying to figure out if this man is attempting to sexually harass me and failing or what*

Me: What?

X-ray tech: Stop talking nerd *guard's name*, you're scaring her

Security: I suppose you don't know me very well, I like to play as a warlock

Me: *pauses to process like an old Windows XP* Are you talking about fucking D&D?

Security: Yeah, aren't you?

Me: You asked me what I do here, and I told you I'm a medical scribe. You're the one talking about dungeons and dragons

[mashupofmylife]

I couldn't get the emr to work on my computer yesterday while I was actually at work, so I still have all my notes to do and I've spent all afternoon sitting on the couch actively avoiding doing notes

[gallium-spoon]

Conversation I had one time:

Me: I'm working with a patient who just had a below knee amputation

Friend: bologna amputation??

Me:...

Friend:...

Me: below THE knee amputation

Friend: oh!

Friend: I was wondering what part of the body the bologna was in...

[purinna]

“Be careful before you envy what you would judge as “happiness”.

For I have gone through months that most wouldn’t get up from.

But I am left with no choice, but to get up, and smile as I talk to you.

So, before taking envy know it’s not out of happiness,

it’s in hopes that my act of joy makes someone happy,

for then and only then, I start feeling that this life might be worth living.”

-Before You Envy.

[cura-te-ipsum]

If you're wondering why you have to wait 3+ months for a doctor's appointment, this is why.

Between active COVID patients, increase in other infectious diseases, surgical complications due to increased frequency of immunocompromization, aging population bubble, people not properly taking care of themselves mid COVID (read: we were all stressed af which has physical consequence), and the rush of folks now prioritizing their health, our healthcare system is overbooked, overworked, and unable to keep up with demand. We literally do not have the facilities, staff, and resources to keep up. This is a problem across the globe, not just in the 3rd world or underserved areas.

So please, for the love of all gods, have some patience and give healthcare workers a break. When we say we don't have any openings for months, we aren't pulling your leg. It takes several years for facilities to add rooms, parking, beds, equipment, etc.

Remember, we're just human too. We can't be in two places at once. We can't have two patients in the same room at once. We can't use the same piece of equipment on two patients at once.

And please, please, PLEASE!!! If you can, GET VACCINATED, wear a mask, and stay home if you're symptomatic!!!

Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.

But something else happened.

Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.

“So it’s really been a mystery — why do children stop dying at such high rates from all these different infections following introduction of the measles vaccine,” says Michael Mina, a postdoc in biology at Princeton University and a medical student at Emory University.

Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine Photo credit: Photofusion/UIG via Getty Images

[murderouswidowsmatter]

The problem with “senseless violence” narrative around the UnitedHealthcare CEO is that it ignores the inherent violence of the insurance industry. Denying someone lifesaving care is violence. Subjecting someone to drawn out periods of pain before treatment is violent. The industry is made up of millions of acts of violence everyday, with the CEO at the helm guiding it all. This is not unprovoked and it’s not an overreaction; it is just harder to ignore

[princess-kurosaki]

work is honestly a shit show tonight. please be ready for my rant when i go on break because what the actual fuckkkkk.

[redsans-world]

[i-nail-jello-to-walls]

Life update: got punched in the face by a patient on Sunday, the first person in my department to ever get physically assaulted. So that was fun. Good thing I have good reflexes, or I would have had another broken nose/my glasses broken

[sticksandsharks]

Egret Nurse

design from The Wildercourt (a graphic novel I am working on and hope to have finished in 2025)

[ymahousewine]

There's something you need to know about US health insurance

While the topic is still hot I want to mention something I think is important. I have made a post or two before but it bears repeating.

I once worked at a call center of one of the leading health insurance companies

The corruption and coddling of "the rich" is REAL.

None of the executives of Facebook, snap chat, twitter (any social media or tech company) pay deductibles

YES THE RICH DO NOT HAVE DEDUCTIBLES

Not only that but ELECTIVE SURGERIES (noes jobs, boob jobs, face lifts, tummy tucks ect.) for these people was also covered in full.

And these are RICH people. Not your neighbor who collects fancy watches with the lake house. Not the guy with the loud shiny car or the lady with fancy clothes. Oh no those neighbors might as well be paupers cosplaying as rich compared to these people.

The other thing that I need to tell you is this: the children of the rich are walking pharmacies. All the party drugs normal people go to jail for "abusing" yeah these kids have a script even if the medications don't make sense to prescribe together.

One of the most radicalizing moments in my time there was:

I had one call with a RICH person and let them know their elective rhinoplasty and boob job for their wife was covered with no deductible. The plan they were on was like $250 a month, for a billionaire, for the whole family.

Right after that call I had to tell a young woman that her medically necessary abortion would not be covered.

Walking out of that job was not difficult. Keep in mind, the call center reps have no control over what insurance will and will not pay for. They cannot "do you favors" and push a claim in faster. I have plenty of stories from my time there, from people loosing their minds to actual threats to completely incompetent supervisors. But the thing that stuck with me the most is that the unfairness and corruption is baked into insurance from the start.

It's designed to keep/make you as poor as possible

[cura-te-ipsum]

Patients asking how my day is going.

Me desperately trying not to respond with any or all of the above.

#current mood

[gallium-spoon]

A patient told me to quote "eat carrots and die" today when I asked her to do standing exercises with me

She then added that she hates carrots. In case her feelings weren't clear I guess