I work in a hospital.
I was bringing a guy out to the exit and he gave me this sinceare, heartfelt ‘thank you for your service! I know it’s tough cause of all this covid crap, but I appreciate you, you guys don’t get enough credit, thank you so much, thank you for your service.’
I didn’t have the heart to tell him covid isn’t a big deal.
Like, guy, I just wear a mask all day and that’s it. My life hasn’t changed at all.
BRING OUT YER DEAD! DING DING BRING OUT YER DEAD!!!!!!
I'm not dead yet!
bop
JUST A FLESH WOUND
My God man, it's such a scam. No, hospital are not overwhelmed. Bed's being at or around 100% capacity (at least for the hospital I work for) is completely standard. It's how the hospital makes money.
Heck, like a year ago we had a doctor in the ER who would admit patients for literally any reason, JUST cause the hospital get's more money for patients who have to stay over night.
And the breaking point? Nurses are at the breaking point cause there's so many scumbags who are looking for excuses to call out. "OH! MY throat is kinda scratchy! COVID! COVID! Gimme a few days off until I get a negative test. We don't want me spreading the virus, right?"
Plus the hospital refuses to hire more staff, despite the availability. Hospitals don't care about burnout, they care about caring for the most patients possible with the least staff needed. You know, like a business.
It's all a scam.
Thank you for the inside scoop, true patriot.
No problem. All these stupid news people talk about 'overwhelmed nurses', but the problem is a direct result of the company we work for. There is no shortage of nurses at all, only that the individual floors aren't given the budget to hire more staff.
They do have the budget to pay nurses overtime though, cause that's a lot cheaper. Hence all the burnout people talk about.
How many people like you are in your field? Seems like the medical field is a lost cause
What do you mean?
Staff complaining about their department’s budget not being large enough? Tons. Everybody complains. We all knew (and didn’t like) that one doctor who admitted patients for the extra money, and everybody knows how the ‘you have to suffer for a while in order to justify a budget increase for more staff’ game is played.
In terms of knowing covid is a scam... hmm. Well I know everyboy is sick of wearing masks, but I think I’m in the minority for that. I know that people don’t really care about it anymore (like nurses not wearing n-95s when going into covid patients room. They only wear one when the patient is being given an ‘aresol’ treatment). But I do know a few who are totally in favor of a complete shutdown of the country for a few weeks. Honestly, I’d lean toward ‘more lost’ than not.
I tired to pickup a Doctor's note for my son's school from the doctor's office without wearing a mask and the lady lost her damn mind. I told her I had a medical condition but she didn't care. Wouldn't budge. Then this other hyena down the hall her us arguing so she comes out and starts arguing too. Like holy shit, this is legit discrimination going on now. This has to stop.
I BELIEVE IN SCIENCE!
TRUST THE EXPERTS!
WEAR A MASK! LIVE IN FEAR! OBEY, SLAVE!
DA NUMBAZ! WE GOT CASES OVA HEA!
And its not even based on science.
"Science!"
I am literally shaking right now, I will explore my unconscious biases immediately.
Maybe you can just say to such people, "I think we're past the worst of it..."
I have respect for you...for your honesty. Im so tired of this virus and i hope those leftist medical practitioners would quit their high horse and just be real. I cannot stand when they bitch, "i dont even get hazard pay! I work so u can stay safe" effin bs. I swear.
I'm not tired of the virus at all. The virus is almost nonexistent if you ask me.
Virus is a weird spelling for authoritarian nazi democrats. Theyre the real problem behind all of this. The virus isn't alarming to me at all as much as the 4th Reich hiding behind the virus.
Unions rule the medical industry workers. Unions hate Trump.
bureaucrats control the medical/health industry. Last nurse strike ....... ?
Most are part time employees, ddg it 😊
Shits annoying. I'm not medical, but I am union. All the union leaders are die hard Dems, but all the union workers (at least my industry) are die hard Trump supporters.
Maybe its time for the unions to pick new leadership?
Lol. That's how it's supposed to work, right? Back when union leaders represented their union workers. Now they all seem to be 'unanimously reelected.' By who? I don't know a soul who gets a say in that vote....
You guys are a tough crowd. There are cases wherein it’s perfectly acceptable to say “thank you” and leave it at that. I thank people for taking my groceries out to the car; the farrier, the FedEx driver, the ladies at the salon.
Along with all the Biden and COVID lies, damn lies and shut, it’s ok to just be nice. For just a few minutes.
🚂 🇺🇸
Nice reply!
Well sure, I smile along and take the compliment. Coworkers and patients thank me all the time for the stuff I do... but this dude thought I was risking my life for the service of the community, or something. I just feel like a fraud.
Don’t be ridiculous. The OP is supposed to verbally take on a patient in a wheelchair? And what, pray tell, will that solve? There is a time and a place. That was neither.
You could use a heavy dose of civility.
You’re some kind of angry knuckle dragger.
Well to be fair, my job is partly customer service. I don't wanna give people a bad impression right on their way out the door.
True, but I also take pride in my job. I want to be the best at what I do and I want to help my company succeed. It’s horribly unprofessional to go off on patients about this and that.
Sometimes you're not trying to start a scene attempting to convince a stranger of all the evidence we have in a "thank you" exchange. Sometimes it's better to just be nice and wait for the next opportunity where you have the time and place to sit someone down and explain what's up.
You sound fucking twelve. Do you also convince every stranger you see Hillary belongs in jail? Jesus man, know your time and place. You keep using the word cuck, find another one
Do you just yall random shit at a funeral? No fucker. There is a time and a place. I also think 911 was an inside job, there are ways to go about this
I do my part to convince those around me of what's going on, but I'm not going around being a retard.
Good luck getting your point across and getting them to listen. Screaming at everyone you see is fucking stupid. But if you think that's what we need to do right now, go start a scene. If some rando came up to your face talking random antifa shit you wouldn't listen, mostly because of the way you approached and how you're conveying the info. You're fucking stupid
I tried to tell one of my oldest friends this today by text..... she is convinced she is going to die. I haven't seen her since February. She got mad at me.
HEROES WORK HERE...LOL fuckin bullshit
That's part of the societal demoralization, too. When everyone is a hero, no one is.
I don't mean any insult to OP with this comment, but;
I'm so tired of all this faux-hero worship directed at the medical community. I guess we just add medical staff the the bullshit list of other not-very-dangerous professions that we've been forced to include in the every expanding list of 'Heros'. Teachers, truck drivers, grocery store staff, I'm sure they've added another group while I was writing the list.
Give me a fucking break. Are these clowns getting paid still? Are they getting shot at on the daily? No? Then STFU and do your job.
I figure whores will be the next group added to the 'Hero' list, since ya know, they have to risk getting the coof to suck dick for money.
Here's another way to look at it that may help you see them differently. When covid hit in March, we were told it was killing people at a high rate with little way for us to know who it would hit the hardest. PPE was rationed and reports started coming in that around the world doctors and nurses were dying. In light of that news, people in the medical community rushed in still towards the unknown. That, to me, still warrants recognition.
I'm not impressed. Correctional staff get piss and shit thrown on them every day. Welders deal with unavoidable occupational hazards that are guaranteed to cause them serious health implications later in life. Roofers work in the blistering sun and freezing cold for pennies compared to what those doctors and nurses get paid.
You don't hear about the risks taken by those or any of the hundreds of other dangerous jobs people do every day. Know why? Cause they aren't out there constantly whining about it.
Did it occur to you, before you wrote yours, that I might be agreeing with him???
What difference is it to you? I wanted him to know my comment wasn't directed at him, but was a general statement on the hero worship BS I mentioned.
Own what? Are you the OP? No. Then STFU. What a weird little hill you've picked to die on.
100%. Covid has not been THAT big of a deal.
You wear the N-95 when you go in the covid room, you do what you need to do, you're done.
Hospital staff have complained more about the mask mandate than having to deal with covid patients.
You mean you didn't dodge sniper fire on your way in to work today?
As a veteran it is just awkward when people thank me. Just accept the fact there are still good people out there who recognize you work hard.
I never go up to a stranger who is a veteran and thank them “for their service”. Number 1, they are a stranger and for all I know they are a pedophile or worse, or are just pathetic as a human being, were I to get to know them. Number 2, on top of them being a stranger, more than likely they joined the service for something other than patriotic reasons....it was a way for them to get benefits, etc, and their duties were no less harrowing than that of a garbage collector, which, by the way, the garbage collectors ALL, with no exception “are keeping us safe” no hyperbole. So why not thank garbage collectors?
No offense taken. It's nonsense. Man, I remember how nervous I was at first, when covid started and all the democrats were telling us to party it up in china town.
Then they said I couldn't wear gloves in the hallway when moving a covid patient 'cAuSe iT's NoT pRoFeSsIoNaL', and I knew it was a scam.
I know how you feel.
I've done work where I was mildly inconvenienced and had people thanking me profusely. Plus I'm being paid $60 an hour to do it.
Meanwhile, I think back to jobs I've done where I labored 24 hours straight covered in mud with no plan for a hot meal or a good rest in sight. It just makes what I'm doing then feel real trite.
So I usually just thank them and tell them 'no problem'. The idea they have on the trouble versus my idea doesn't have to line up.
You are not a piece of trash. The medical professionals were deceived too. Some of the Covid cases are not always a big deal depending where you are. But we do see some cases difficult to treat especially in the elderly. People on the outside just believe the hero hype because of what they are told by media. The truth is we are no more heros than anyone else who deals with this stupid virus. My life has changed I work a lot of extra shifts now staff out sick. We have lost a couple of coworkers too. It is not the patient load that is doable when people are not out sick.
Lol well yeah a LOT of people literally think the world is collapsing because of covid.
Unreal. I mean its good that youre getting recognition because it would fucking suck to take care of sick people for a living and being around death all the time... Would wear me out for sure.
Bit yeah they think youre working with the plague. Ridiculous.
But yeah keep up the good work pede
Its weird to see non medical personal wearing masks to buy groceries.
I had a family friend die recently of COVID. I still think its a scam as did my family friend who refused to wear masks or social distance. My thoughts is that his age (in his sixties I believe) and his over exposure to hospitals may have caused him to have a high viral load.
I think the saddest thing is this is such a scam that we cant even focus on the real danger zones and at-risk folks to minimize pointless deaths but not at the cost of locking down low risk individuals. And now it's all political. Fuck these globalist scum that made this political and not fact-based.
Hey, if you're doing the best job you can do and you're not falling for the bullshit, you deserve it. Thanks for your hard work!
should've slipped him a note that read "thedonald.win", and just winked at him
Same boat bruh. If anything healthcare workers have come up due to Covid. Overtime through the fn ceiling. Thanks to Covid Im living higher on thr hog than ever. Real heroes dont wear capes is bullshit. Healthcare workers dancing with lattes in hand, cops standing idle as Antifa runs wild. Fuck off
You just need to redpill your patients. The whole reason this panic got out of hand is because medical professionals failed to call out politicians on their garbage.
I think you should of told him the truth. Could of opened his eyes to all the lies the media has been pushing on COVID-19
I really wanted too, but I've never had the confidence to say things so decisively. I've been trying to work up to things like that but I'm just not there yet.
Can't wait for the grocery stores to start giving hero discounts and banks to start offering lower percentage APR when shown a medial badge.
Did you wheel him into the ICU with 25 beds, 10 filled, and exclaim "WE'RE ALMOST AT FULL CAPACITY!!!!" ?
No, but on my way to get him I passed by the ICU bed that was filled with a drunken loser who was going through withdrawl and screaming his head off at nurses.
God bless you and other EMTs. You folks have to deal with a lot of bullshit.
Op, I had a bad allergic reaction to something years back. Co worker ran me to hospital while my throat was swelling up. They got me into er, pumped me full of steroids and uhh whatever that medicine is. Benadryl? The base medicine. Anyways, so I’m falling asleep because I’m high as fuck on this shit and the male nurse is checking my pulse and I’m like
“Bro thanks man, you guys are so awesome.” Then I passed out
One of the gayest, most embarrassing moments of my life and I hate you all for drugging me lmao.
My brother still to this day is upset he didn’t get a pick of me with my head swollen up like a flesh sack so he could make fun of me for years to come. Dodged a bullet there!