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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 280 points 21 hours ago (32 children)

I never will understand how somebody gets into any facet of medicine (e.g. nurse, doctor, pharmacist) and find it okay to deny anybody healthcare solely based on how the person lives. Like dude, there are better ways to make money and be a bigot at the same time. Insurance CEO comes to mind. Cannon fodder as well.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 109 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (21 children)

Because nursing school will shove you through even if you should fail and it's an affordable 2 year degree that pays. And that's how I ended up explaining what the P in HIPAA stands for and how to operate a mask. White trash nurses are a meme.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 23 points 21 hours ago (7 children)

My first college was a technical college that also trained nurses. If there’s one thing I learned it’s that nurses have nasty hygiene habits. Hopefully that gets washed out (pun intended) in the field; eventually.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 35 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

A nurse once told me to "mind my own fucking business" when I said "are you fucking kidding me?" to seeing her pull off her mask to cough into her hand and go back to the shit she was working on during covid lock downs. In the ER nurses station, surrounded by nurses with asks completely down or with noses poking out.

10/10

[–] barooboodoo@lemmy.zip 16 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

On the one hand you're 1000% right but man it must've sucked so much ass being a nurse during COVID, I probably would've been close to snapping 24/7.

[–] WhiteHotaru@feddit.org 28 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

May I tell you the story of my wife, a doctor, who send us to her parents in lockdown, worked her ass of in full protection a couple of hundred kilometers south, seeing our two little kids only at the weekends, if there were absolutely no symptoms and she didn’t have a shift the day before, for month? When she didn’t not have to work, she sat alone in our flat contemplating on the newly dead people who where to young to die.

Wearing a fucking mask was not the part that sucked during lockdown.

[–] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I really dont think they meant the masks sucked. I think they meant more like what you just described.

[–] WhiteHotaru@feddit.org 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I know. It was more a post covidal rant at the nurses. Even if you are at your limit those masks are self protection.

[–] barooboodoo@lemmy.zip 4 points 15 hours ago

Yeah for sure, it must've been that much more frustrating for the nurses that understood the importance of PPE having to work with ones that didn't.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 9 points 17 hours ago

man it must’ve sucked so much ass being a nurse during COVID

Hands down, no question. It was still the early days, april 2020, so I am a bit less forgiving than later in 2020. Nurses already got the short end of the medical stick even before covid

this instance was just particularly memorable.

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