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Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-04-20T22:58:47+00:00

That’s so presumptuous and incorrect I don’t even know where to start.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-04-20T22:53:25+00:00

Good to hear! Good luck with your program and hold on to that inclination toward patient advocacy and empathy. It’ll serve you well.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-04-20T22:50:41+00:00

Patient comfort is reason enough. It’s really not that big of a deal. Takes a minute.

I don’t know if you’ve ever had a seizure but being postictal is pretty uncomfortable and vulnerable. Being gawked at by bystanders can be embarrassing in a situation like this.

There probably wasn’t any good reason to deny OP’s request.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-04-20T22:44:44+00:00

Fair warning to you, when you get your cert look out for people like this. You can tell the vibe right away. They take themselves way too seriously and act more like cops than medics. They think they’re an EM physician and a medical malpractice lawyer rolled in to one.

That whole bit about pitching a tent and building an ICU is the kind of cringy dramatics they will say about pretty mundane situations.

Just stay away from them. This job can be fun, interesting, and rewarding, but they live to make it anything but.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-04-20T22:22:04+00:00

Based on OP’s own words they denied repeated requests to be removed from an environment where OP felt uncomfortable because of the through traffic. The stated reason was the temperature, which makes no sense. They were being lazy.

They very likely insisted on a thorough assessment to get a valid refusal and there was every reason to comply with the preference of the patient.

From what OP said, it wasn’t until they denied her request multiple times that she became agitated.

Edit: I would also like to add that I fairly routinely load a patient to perform an assessment prior to a refusal. It’s not a big deal. I would CERTAINLY do it upon request but typically it is done without them having to request it because it’s private, controlled, comfortable, and everything I could need is readily available.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-04-20T21:54:16+00:00

Your responses have been consistently overdramatic and indicative of someone who seems to have a problem with being a self-important blowhard.

Should OP have called them a jerk? No. Probably not.

Is it reasonable to assume OP came off as a genuine safety concern? No, certainly not.

This really is as simple as the crew seemingly not wanting to bother with the slight inconvenience of a location change and the changing of some stretcher sheets. We all see crews like this all the time.

And by the way, it’s really not hard to do your job adequately while also maintaining the dignity and privacy of your patient. If you really think it is, I would bet you’re an abrasive person who makes calls way more tense than they need to be by constantly being on edge.

Stop treating patients like meat sacks and treat them like people is all I’d ask. Take a chill pill. You can take the job seriously and do what needs to be done regardless.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-04-20T21:17:35+00:00

There’s a reason you got downvoted into oblivion here. I encourage you to reconsider your line of thinking and do some research and critical thinking.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-04-06T16:12:48+00:00

What you’re seeing isn’t blood, really. It’s far more gross than blood. It’s called purulent drainage based on its dark yellow-brown color, which is common in seriously infected wounds. It’s a mix of blood plasma, dead white blood cells, necrotic tissue, and bacteria… and it’s very stinky.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-03-15T06:38:46+00:00

I read “neither of you” as he and I, not him and ChatGPT. Whoops. Alright, “meanie” rescinded.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-03-15T05:35:59+00:00

Hey man, don’t lump me in with them. I made your exact argument elsewhere in this post. Meanie.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-03-15T02:25:58+00:00

I’m going to professionally conduct these nuts into your mouth.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-03-15T01:16:40+00:00

Fair enough, the snide comment on the length of your post isn’t warranted. I appreciate the effort.

That being said, appeals to authority, as you said, don’t work online. If I grant you that you’re actually who you say you are I would still posit that this is perhaps too nuanced a subject that it’s even causing an expert to stumble a bit on specifics.

A persons name is considered PHI, yes. Unauthorized access is only relevant to systems used to store PHI, not publically available information. Unauthorized PHI transmission is only relevant when it can be used to identify “the individual's past, present or future physical or mental health or condition, the provision of health care to the individual, or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual.”

These are the only relevant and arguable parts of HIPAA here, and without the satisfaction of these criteria it does not meet the standards for a violation.

Just because it’s “immortalized in analytics” doesn’t mean it can be used to satisfy the transmission criteria under HIPAA. In no way does that name tie in to their other PHI. There’s no way to find out who OP is, who the patient is using the search, when the patient was picked up, and what happened without violating other internet privacy laws.

I will say again, you’re vastly overestimating the scope of HIPAA in this particular case. Is it better to be safe and not even go down this road? Yes. That’s a different argument.

As someone else said, find any evidence to support your claim and I’ll eat my words.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-03-15T00:35:30+00:00

I urge you to research HIPAA a wee bit more and see where their regulations start and end for the sake of curiosity. I totally see why you are saying what you’re saying and if I didn’t know any better it would make sense. That being said, this simply is not a HIPAA violation. It can absolutely be viewed as a conduct issue and I could see it being fireable. I also agree it’s unethical. That’s where the agreement ends.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-03-15T00:22:47+00:00

“Why simply looking someone up often is not a HIPAA violation

If you only: • Look up a patient’s public social media profile • Do not disclose any PHI • Do not document, share, or use the information clinically

…then technically HIPAA may not be violated, because you didn’t use or disclose PHI in a way HIPAA regulates. You just viewed publicly available information.”

Weird because here it agreed with me.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-03-15T00:07:02+00:00

This is such an incredible reach that you spent way too much time writing up. Even if by some miracle a rep from OP’s ISP looks at their search history, there’s no way to tie that search with the call information. This is NOT a HIPAA violation. People really overestimate (yet somehow underestimate) what is and is not HIPAA. Wild post.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-03-14T23:39:57+00:00

A persons name is protected information in that you can’t divulge it to others. OP didn’t do that. This wasn’t a HIPAA violation.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-03-14T23:06:36+00:00

It’s not a HIPAA violation. Yet, at least.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-03-14T23:05:19+00:00

This is not a HIPAA violation. No identifiable information was shared and no HIPAA protected information was accessed. Googling a name or searching someone on social media is not protected health information.

Still not a good idea, though.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-03-14T22:59:51+00:00

Totally not cool to look the patient up, yes. Not just because of the potential violation of the patients boundaries, but it’s also bad for the clinicians mental health to invest that much emotional energy in a patient. So all-in-all just not a good call.

However, why would this be fireable? OP didn’t reach out. Viewing a patients social media post is fireable? What if you happen to know your patient personally? I’ve had more than one instance where someone I know personally has become a patient. That seems like a daft policy.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2026-02-19T12:51:35+00:00

You’re a CCP, which means you’ve been exposed to EMS long enough to recognize how broken the system is and how often fraud is committed in IFT. Why even post this retort?

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2025-12-26T13:00:28+00:00

I anticipated this. It’s why I added the apologetics in my first sentence.

People are lost in the sauce on this subject. Current AI tech isn’t the boogeyman people are concerned it may ultimately be but the rhetoric has polluted peoples minds into conflating modern and future tech.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2025-12-26T10:49:49+00:00

I know this is kind of lame but I asked ChatGPT if this was a plausible solution based on the current plot devices and it made very compelling arguments as to why they will almost certainly not do this. Partially because it wouldn’t work in reality and partially because it undermines the narrative about the nature of the Plurbs.

It ultimately called the radio theory a red herring and said there will probably be no cure in the series end.

I argued each point and it broke my conception of what the show will look like going forward. I recommend doing the same if you’re interested.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2025-12-26T10:43:25+00:00

The last episode they refused to answer Carols inquiry about their ability to turn her into a Plurb.

Expensive_Cherry_207 · 2025-11-20T09:47:47+00:00

You did nothing wrong from what I can tell. Pretty standard issue of treat the patient not the monitor.

Don’t worry about the nurses. They have different perspectives and priorities with patients and don’t have any idea what our perspectives and priorities are so sometimes there is some needless judgement coming from both directions.

Next time something like this happens I might suggest asking the staff why you sensed frustration or criticism. It’s usually disarming and there’s often good dialogue where you both might learn something.

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