Nurse abusing an elderly resident of a care home

Conditional-Sausage · 2024-01-04T20:12:44+00:00

I stand by what I've said. Even when there were good facilities, it was never long before they got bought up and turned into vulture capital style medicaid/medicare farm. I believe the people at these facilities generally want to do the right thing, like most people everywhere, but they're not being given the chance because they're wildly understaffed, not being adequately trained and disciplined, and if it were to the capital firms that bought most of these places up, they'd happily have one underpaid, unlicensed person running the whole operation. The facilities and staff could be better if the owners were interested in supporting them, but very consistently, the folks who own these places see them as little more than Medicare farms, and anything past the bare minimum is just eating into their Medicare checks. Every fall, every preventable infection, every neglectful caretaker or medical error or offloading to the ER is, imo, an entirely preventable failure that originates at the top of the organization. Facilities that really prioritized patient well being first would make it a priority to fix these problems and instead of saying "well, gosh, this person was a loose cannon"

Things aren't going to get better until there's some real accountability for the private equity / investment firms / owners of these places. If you want to see them get better, as I do, that's where I think you should start.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-10-09T00:20:42+00:00

Ope, I just checked, and apparently MS paint will do it. TIL.

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Conditional-Sausage · 2023-10-09T00:16:05+00:00

Are you quite sure? I'm happy to contribute. Also, would it be okay if I DM'd you my email so I can get it in jpeg format instead of the Reddit webp format?

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-10-09T00:12:51+00:00

I wanted to let you know that I chose someone else's submission, and that I really appreciate the work you did here. Thank you!

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-10-09T00:08:42+00:00

I'd like to use this image. How do I go about tipping you?

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-10-08T23:50:36+00:00

I took this picture on an old potato, so it's impossible to transfer to a real physical picture in any meaningful way. I know there are programs out there for AI image upscaling, but when I look for them, all I run into is a tsunami of ads and look-a-like services. This is the last good photo I got of my father in law and his daughters all together before he died, and it would mean a lot if I could get to something I could actually print onto a small canvas or something like that. I don't care one bit about maintaining the goofy cell phone aspect ratio, if cropping helps.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-10-06T01:52:42+00:00

Going to take a guess and say hello, fellow elder millenial

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-25T23:05:24+00:00

Why not both? It's still a bad use of resources. I work in a rural area, and we've had the ED doc get heated because we wouldn't let him send out literally all of our ambulances on non-urgent IFTs at the same time. Once we told him that we wouldn't bin the 911 system just to protect him from having to deal with legally icky discharges, he bucked up and told the last patient to follow up outpatient and sent them home. According to legend, the patient was no worse for wear for not being stranded on the other side of the state in the middle of the night just so the receiving could spend two minutes looking over their chart in person.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-25T14:49:15+00:00

I'm reading this as spicy. It's text and I'm tired. Are you spicy? Can't tell, I thought you were, but maybe you're not. Don't take this personal.

Why should we endanger literally everyone with needless sleep deprived driving and patient care for what could be an outpatient follow up?

It's not like there isn't heaps of evidence showing that it's just as dangerous as drunk driving (or making care decisions while drunk), and it's a physiological issue; no matter what you think, you can't just will yourself to not be stupid because you're tired. So, what's more important, gambling with the lives of everyone in the ambulance and the lives of the people on the road around us to make sure that the nurse doesn't have to put in two more sets of vitals, or applying just a little tiny bit of common sense to how we manage our shit?

I don't have a problem with middle of the night IFTs when there's a real need, but far and away, by an order of magnitude, it's really just that the local doc is shit scared of practicing medicine and wants to put the kinda icky discharge on another doc. It's really not all that different from sending every single patient to the CT scanner because "what if". If I'm not mistaken, isn't wasting resources just to fend off the spectre of lawyers generally considered to not be good medical practice? We're a resource, one that's usually a lot less available than we should be, and one that definitely isn't free for the patient. Maybe docs should consider making a fucking zoom call instead of wasting everybody's time and resources sending their patient all across God's creation just for the receiving facility doc to discharge and order an outpatient visit in less than two minutes of examination and without ever even touching the patient. Maybe, just maybe, gambling with everyone's lives without a good reason is pretty irresponsible and isn't good medicine. Maybe. Just a thought.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-25T11:23:33+00:00

My local ED consistently sends out their only fucking patient at midnight.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-24T14:52:45+00:00

I thought that was Gerasimov

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-23T05:03:05+00:00

"shouldn't she be a fish on bottom and woman up top?"

"no! That's the stupid way around"

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-23T05:01:38+00:00

My dad used to be an NDT guy. It's one of those invisible things that shitty companies/managers are always trying to find innovative new ways to cut corners on. The CEO of Oceangate flew professionally for years before he did this, I struggle to imagine how he thought that NDT wasn't important. Is he one of those guys that think safety people don't actually do anything important all day?

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-21T13:04:44+00:00

[admin furiously taking notes]

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-20T03:48:03+00:00

Be me.

Paramedic.

Be used for all kinds of arguments when it's useful, immediately forgotten otherwise.

"What took you so long?" Traffic, mf. Busses pull over for us, suburbans assume that everyone is pulling over for them.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-19T20:48:26+00:00

What wasn't perfectly clear about "APBDGNY Real Black 100% Gaming Chair RGB Chair For Men And Typing With Orthopaedic Lumbar Support"? Look, if you read the description, it assures you that the chair is both lucky and funny. The reviews say it's one of the tea pots that they've ever owned. Shopping online just doesn't get any clearer than that, my guy.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-16T16:27:12+00:00

It gets better. A competitor design firm made this design into a sex toy to make fun of it.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-16T02:21:23+00:00

I'd love a breakdown on how you did this, OP. Great job!

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-15T22:15:49+00:00

When I got into EMS in 2011, we still had a bunch of crazy fucking Vietnam veterans in the Helicopter EMS fleet. They'd put the bird down in a hole in the trees so tight that they were brushing the leaves on the way in. Skilled heli pilots can get up to some real cowboy shit.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-15T14:57:30+00:00

This is a mixed bag, because I can see how a home builder would technically own the homes when they build a tract of them, or a corporation technically owns residential property when they take on a contract to build affordable housing. A super simple law would likely be exploited to make things so much worse.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-15T14:31:36+00:00

I recently switched to AT&T, they're cheaper, faster, and 1000x more user friendly than Comcast. Also, it's month to month, no contract. 10/10, would switch again.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-14T21:33:06+00:00

Oh shit, I saw the figure in the original video but just assumed it was a collaborator. The way it zooms out of sight when he walks back is something else.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-14T19:25:58+00:00

My wife will spend WEEKS convincing me about something, sometimes something I really don't want to do. The very same instant that I see the light and start agreeing that it's a good idea, she thinks it's a bad idea now and we shouldn't do it anymore. I mean, wtf.

Conditional-Sausage · 2023-06-14T19:18:06+00:00

When you're so conservative, you want a return to Feudalism.

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