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'Don't be too kind': Maternity staff used offensive terms to refer to patients (www.bbc.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by Veserr@sh.itjust.works to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] 7112@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A fourth midwife described a "frightening place to work", where shifts were frantic and standards could slip - while a fifth recalled having been the only person on shift capable of analysing babies' heart rates using a monitoring machine.

She remembers "running in and out of people's rooms" and fearing a mother or baby would die because of a lack of appropriate staff. "Sometimes we'd work all night without food or a loo break. People were exhausted."

[–] remon@ani.social 9 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, that's the actual problem, not the fact they blow off some steam by using some rude terms behind patients back.